Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For the Lord will plead their case
And take the life of those who rob them.

King James Version

For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

Holman Bible

for the Lord will take up their case
and will plunder those who plunder them.

International Standard Version

for the LORD will plead their case and ruin the lives of those who ruin them.

A Conservative Version

For LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.

American Standard Version

For Jehovah will plead their cause, And despoil of life those that despoil them.

Amplified


For the Lord will plead their case
And take the life of those who rob them.

Bible in Basic English

For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.

Darby Translation

for Jehovah will plead their cause, and despoil the soul of those that despoil them.

Julia Smith Translation

For Jehovah will contend their contention, and rob the soul to those robbing them.

King James 2000

For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For Yahweh will plead their case and despoil those who despoil them of life.

Modern King James verseion

for Jehovah will plead their cause, and strip the soul of those who plunder them.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

for the LORD himself will defend their cause, and do violence unto them that have used violence.

NET Bible

for the Lord will plead their case and will rob those who are robbing them.

New Heart English Bible

for the LORD will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

The Emphasized Bible

For, Yahweh, will plead their cause, and will despoil their despoilers of life.

Webster

For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

World English Bible

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

Youngs Literal Translation

For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers.

Interlinear

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

Usage: 0

will plead
רוּב ריבo 
Riyb 
Usage: 66

רב ריב 
Riyb 
Usage: 60

and spoil
קבע 
Qaba` 
Usage: 6

the soul
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

קבע 
Qaba` 
Usage: 6

References

Context Readings

Living With Your Neighbor

22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither destroy the destitute in judgment: 23 For the Lord will plead their case
And take the life of those who rob them.
24 Do not meddle with an angry man, and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

Cross References

1 Samuel 25:39

And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD that judged the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and has kept his slave from evil, for the LORD has returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent word unto Abigail to take her to him to wife.

Psalm 12:5

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, saith the LORD; I will set in safety the one whom the wicked one has ensnared.

Psalm 140:12

I know that the LORD will effect the judgment of the poor and the judgment of the destitute.

Proverbs 23:11

For their redeemer is mighty; he shall judge their cause against thee.

Psalm 35:10

All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, who delivers the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoils him?

Jeremiah 51:36

Therefore thus hath the LORD said: Behold, I judge thy cause and shall take thy vengeance; and I will dry up her sea and make her flowing waters dry.

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless and a defender of the widows is God in his holy habitation.

Micah 7:9

I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he has judged my cause and executed my judgment; he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near unto you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against false swearers and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, said the LORD of the hosts.

1 Samuel 24:12

The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee, but my hand shall not be upon thee.

1 Samuel 24:15

The LORD, therefore, shall judge, and he shall judge between me and thee. Let him see and plead my cause, and defend me from thy hand.

Psalm 35:1

Plead my cause, O LORD, with those that strive with me; fight against those that fight against me.

Psalm 43:1

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against those who are not merciful; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to thee that dost spoil, and thou wast not spoiled; and dost deal treacherously, and they did not deal treacherously with thee! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

Jeremiah 50:34

Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of the hosts is his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause that he may give rest to the land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

Habakkuk 2:8

Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the other peoples shall spoil thee because of human blood and for the robberies of the land, of the cities, and of all that dwell therein.

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