Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

How long will ye judge wickedness, and ye will lift up the faces of the unjust? Silence.

New American Standard Bible

How long will you judge unjustly
And show partiality to the wicked? Selah.

King James Version

How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

Holman Bible

“How long will you judge unjustly
and show partiality to the wicked?Selah

International Standard Version

"How long will you judge partially by showing favor on the wicked? Interlude

A Conservative Version

How long will ye judge unjustly, and respect the persons of the wicked? Selah.

American Standard Version

How long will ye judge unjustly, And respect the persons of the wicked? Selah

Amplified


How long will you judge unjustly
And show partiality to the wicked? Selah.

Darby Translation

How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the person of the wicked? Selah.

King James 2000

How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"How long will you judge unjustly and {show favoritism to the wicked}? Selah

Modern King James verseion

How long will you judge unjustly and lift up the faces of the wicked? Selah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

How long will ye give wrong judgment, and accept the persons of the ungodly? Selah.

NET Bible

He says, "How long will you make unjust legal decisions and show favoritism to the wicked? (Selah)

New Heart English Bible

"How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.

Webster

How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

World English Bible

"How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.

Youngs Literal Translation

Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah.

Context Readings

A Plea For Righteous Judgment

1 Chanting to Asaph. God stood in the assembly of God; he will judge in the midst of gods. 2 How long will ye judge wickedness, and ye will lift up the faces of the unjust? Silence. 3 Judge ye the poor one, and the orphan: do justice to the humble one and the poor one

Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:17

Ye shall not look upon faces in judgment; as the small so the great shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is to God; and the word which shall be hard for you, ye shall bring to me and I heard it

Proverbs 18:5

To lift up the face of the unjust one is not good; to turn aside the just one in judgment.

Psalm 58:1-2

To the overseer, Thou wilt not destroy; to David a poem. Will ye indeed speak dumb justice? will ye judge justly, ye sons of man?

Exodus 10:3

And Moses will come, and Aaron, to Pharaoh, and they will say to him, Thus said Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, Until long didst thou refuse to humble thyself from before me. Send forth my people and they shall serve me.

Exodus 23:6-7

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy needy in his cause.

Leviticus 19:15

Ye shall not do evil in judgment; thou shalt not take up the face of the poor; thou shalt not reverence the face of the great: in justice shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

1 Kings 18:21

And Elijah will draw near to all the people and say, How long halt ye upon two opinions? if Jehovah is God, go ye after him: and if Baal, go ye after him. And the people answered him not a word.

2 Chronicles 19:7

And now the fear of Jehovah shall be upon you: watch ye and do: for not iniquity with Jehovah our God, and lifting up of faces, and taking a gift

Job 34:19

Who accepted not the face of chiefs, and looked not upon the rich one before the poor: for his hand made all of them.

Psalm 62:3

How long will ye set upon a man? ye will kill all of you: as a wall inclining, a wall thrust down.

Micah 3:1-3

And saying, Hear now, ye heads of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?

Micah 3:9-12

Hear now this, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and judges of the house of Israel abhorring judgment, and they will pervert all uprightness.

Matthew 17:17

And Jesus, having answered, said, O faithless and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you how long shall I endure you? bring him here to me.

Galatians 2:6

And from them seeming to be something, (whatever they were, it concerns me nothing: God receives not man's face:) for they seeming entrusted nothing to me:

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