Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
LORD is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
New American Standard Bible
He has cut in two the
King James Version
The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
Holman Bible
He has cut the ropes of the wicked.
International Standard Version
The LORD is righteous he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.
American Standard Version
Jehovah is righteous: He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
Amplified
The Lord is righteous;
He has cut in two the [thick] cords of the wicked [which enslaved the people of Israel].
Darby Translation
Jehovah is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
Julia Smith Translation
Jehovah the just cut the entanglings of the unjust
King James 2000
The LORD is righteous: he has cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Yahweh [is] righteous. He has cut [the] ropes of [the] wicked.
Modern King James verseion
Jehovah is righteous; He cuts off the cords of the wicked.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But the righteous LORD hath hewn the snares of the ungodly in pieces.
NET Bible
The Lord is just; he cut the ropes of the wicked."
New Heart English Bible
The LORD is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
The Emphasized Bible
Yahweh, is righteous, He hath cut asunder the cords of the lawless.
Webster
The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
World English Bible
Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
Youngs Literal Translation
Jehovah is righteous, He hath cut asunder cords of the wicked.
References
Easton
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 129:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Protection Of The Oppressed
3 The plowers plowed upon my back. They made long their furrows. 4 LORD is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked. 5 Let them be put to shame and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.
Cross References
Ezra 9:15
O LORD, the God of Israel, thou are righteous, for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day. Behold, we are before thee in our guiltiness, for none can stand before thee because of this.
Nehemiah 9:33
However thou are just in all that has come upon us, for thou have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly,
Psalm 119:137
Thou are righteous, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
Psalm 124:6-7
Blessed be LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Psalm 140:5-11
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords. They have spread a net by the wayside. They have set snares for me. Selah.
Lamentations 3:22
[It is of] LORD's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail.
Daniel 9:7
O LORD, righteousness belongs to thee, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where tho