Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.
New American Standard Bible
You have established
You have
King James Version
The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
Holman Bible
You have established fairness;
You have administered justice
and righteousness in Jacob.
International Standard Version
A mighty king who loves justice, you have established fairness. You have exercised justice and righteousness over Jacob.
A Conservative Version
The king's strength also loves justice. Thou establish equity. Thou execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
American Standard Version
The king's strength also loveth justice; Thou dost establish equity; Thou executest justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Amplified
The strength of the King loves justice and righteous judgment;
You have established fairness;
You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob (Israel).
Darby Translation
And the strength of the king that loveth justice. Thou hast established equity: it is thou that executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
Julia Smith Translation
And the king's strength loved judgment; thou didst prepare uprightnesses, thou didst judgment and justice in Jacob.
King James 2000
The king's strength also loves justice; you do establish equity, you execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And [the] strength of [the] king loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Modern King James verseion
The king's strength also loved judgment; You established uprightness; You worked judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The king's power loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared equity; thou hast executed judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
NET Bible
The king is strong; he loves justice. You ensure that legal decisions will be made fairly; you promote justice and equity in Jacob.
New Heart English Bible
The King's strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
The Emphasized Bible
Yea, with the strength of a king - justice, he loveth, - Thou, hast established equity, Justice and righteousness in Jacob, thou, hast wrought.
Webster
The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
World English Bible
The King's strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Youngs Literal Translation
And the strength of the king Hath loved judgment, Thou -- Thou hast established uprightness; Judgment and righteousness in Jacob, Thou -- Thou hast done.
Topics
Interlinear
Mishpat
משׁפּט
Mishpat
judgment, manner, right, cause, ordinance, lawful, order, worthy, fashion, custom, discretion, law, measure, sentence,
Usage: 421
Kuwn
meyshar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 99:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Is A Holy King
3 Let them give praise to your name, for it is great and to be feared; holy is he. 4 The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob. 5 Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping at his feet; holy is he.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 11:7
For the Lord is upright; he is a lover of righteousness: the upright will see his face.
Job 36:5-7
Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner.
Jeremiah 23:5
See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land.
Deuteronomy 10:18
Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.
Deuteronomy 32:3-4
For I will give honour to the name of the Lord: let our God be named great.
2 Samuel 23:3-4
The God of Israel said, the word of the Rock of Israel came to me: When an upright king is ruling over men, when he is ruling in the fear of God,
Job 37:23
There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.
Psalm 45:6-7
Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; the rod of your kingdom is a rod of honour.
Psalm 72:1-2
Give the king your authority, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son.
Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
Isaiah 11:3-5
And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears:
Isaiah 42:4
His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.
Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.
Jude 1:15
To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him.
Revelation 19:11
And the heaven was open; and I saw a white horse, and he who was seated on it was named Certain and True; and he is judging and making war in righteousness.
Revelation 19:16
And on his robe and on his leg is a name, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.