Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.
New American Standard Bible
O Upright One,
King James Version
The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
Holman Bible
You clear a straight path for the righteous.
International Standard Version
"The path of the righteous is level; O Upright One, you make safe the way of justice.
A Conservative Version
The way of the just is uprightness. Thou who are upright directs the path of the just.
American Standard Version
The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct the path of the just.
Amplified
The way of the righteous [those in right-standing with God—living in moral and spiritual integrity] is smooth and level;
O Upright One, make a level path for the just and righteous.
Darby Translation
The way of the just is uprightness: thou, the Upright, dost make the path of the just even.
Julia Smith Translation
The way to the just one is straightness: being upright, thou wilt prepare the departing of the just one.
King James 2000
The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do smooth the path of the just.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] way of the righteous [is] a straight path; {you clear the level path of the righteous}.
Modern King James verseion
The way of the just is uprightness; O Upright One, weigh the path of the just.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The path of equity wilt thou grant unto the just, O thou most righteous; thou shalt order the path of him that is righteous.
NET Bible
The way of the righteous is level, the path of the righteous that you make is straight.
New Heart English Bible
The way of the righteous is level. O Just One, you make the path of the righteous smooth.
The Emphasized Bible
The path of a righteous man, is, even, - O Upright One! the track of a righteous man, thou makest level.
Webster
The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
World English Bible
The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
Youngs Literal Translation
The path for the righteous is uprightness, O upright One, The path of the righteous Thou dost ponder.
Themes
Learning » When the world will learn righteousness
The fruit of righteousness » When the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness
Uprightness » The lord being upright
Uprightness » A characteristic of saints
Topics
Interlinear
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References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 26:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh's People Vindicated
6 It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need. 7 The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you. 8 We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:2-4
No other is holy as the Lord, for there is no other God but you: there is no Rock like our God.
1 Chronicles 29:17
And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher of hearts, taking pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an upright heart I have freely given all these things; and I have seen with joy your people who are here to make their offerings freely to you.
Job 27:5-6
Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness.
Job 31:6
(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
Psalm 1:6
Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.
Psalm 11:4
The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.
Psalm 11:7
For the Lord is upright; he is a lover of righteousness: the upright will see his face.
Psalm 18:23-26
And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.
Proverbs 20:7
An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him!
Isaiah 35:8
And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.
Isaiah 42:16
And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.
Zephaniah 3:5
The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.
1 Corinthians 4:5
For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.
Ephesians 2:10
For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.
1 John 3:7
My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;
1 John 3:10
In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.