Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Correct me, O Jehovah, but in judgment, not in thy wrath, lest thou shalt make me small.

New American Standard Bible

Correct me, O Lord, but with justice;
Not with Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

King James Version

O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

Holman Bible

Discipline me, Lord, but with justice—
not in Your anger,
or You will reduce me to nothing.

International Standard Version

LORD, correct me, but with justice, not with anger. Otherwise, you'll bring me to nothing.

A Conservative Version

O LORD, correct me, but in measure, not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

American Standard Version

O Jehovah, correct me, but in measure: not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

Amplified


O Lord, correct me [along with Your people], but with mercy and in just measure—
Not in Your anger, or You will crush me and bring me to nothing.

Bible in Basic English

O Lord, put me right, but with wise purpose; not in your wrath, or you will make me small.

Darby Translation

Jehovah, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

King James 2000

O LORD, correct me, but with justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Chastise me, Yahweh, but in moderation, not in your anger, lest you eradicate me.

Modern King James verseion

O Jehovah, correct me, but with judgment; not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Therefore chasten thou us, O LORD; but with favour, and not in thy wrath. Bring us not utterly to naught.

NET Bible

Correct us, Lord, but only in due measure. Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing.

New Heart English Bible

LORD, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

The Emphasized Bible

Chastise me, O Yahweh But yet in measure, - Not in thine anger, lest thou make me few.

Webster

O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thy anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

World English Bible

Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

Youngs Literal Translation

Chastise me, O Jehovah, only in judgment, Not in Thine anger, lest Thou make me small.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
O Lord

Usage: 0

me, but with judgment
משׁפּט 
Mishpat 
Usage: 421

References

Context Readings

Jeremiah's Prayer

23 I knew, O Jehovah, that not to man his way; not to man to go and set right his step. 24 Correct me, O Jehovah, but in judgment, not in thy wrath, lest thou shalt make me small. 25 Pour out thy wrath upon the nations which knew thee not, and upon the families that called not upon thy name: for they ate up Jacob and consumed him, and they will finish him, and they made desolate his dwelling.

Cross References

Psalm 6:1

To the overseer upon the stringed instruments upon the octave, chanting of David. O Jehovah, not in thine anger wilt thou correct me, and not in thy wrath wilt thou chastise me.

Psalm 38:1

Chanting of David to bring to remembrance.

Jeremiah 30:11

For I am with thee, says Jehovah, to serve thee: for I will make a completion to all nations where I scattered thee there, but with thee I will not make a completion: and I corrected thee for judgment, and acquitting, I will not let thee go unpunished.

Job 6:18

The paths of their way will turn aside; they will go up into desolation and perish.

Isaiah 40:23

He gave princes to nothing; he made the judges of the earth as vanity.

Isaiah 41:11-12

Behold, all they burning with anger against thee shall be ashamed and disgraced: they shall be as nothing; and the men of thy strife shall be destroyed.

Habakkuk 3:2

O Jehovah, I heard thy report, I was afraid: O Jehovah, preserve alive thy work in the midst of years, in the midst of years make known; in anger thou wilt remember mercy.

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