Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

For judgment shall turn back even to justice: and after it all the upright of heart

New American Standard Bible

For judgment will again be righteous,
And all the upright in heart will follow it.

King James Version

But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

Holman Bible

for justice will again be righteous,
and all the upright in heart will follow it.

International Standard Version

Righteousness will be restored with justice, and all the pure of heart will follow it.

A Conservative Version

For judgment shall return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

American Standard Version

For judgment shall return unto righteousness; And all the upright in heart shall follow it.

Amplified


For judgment will again be righteous,
And all the upright in heart will follow it.

Bible in Basic English

But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.

Darby Translation

For judgment shall return unto righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

King James 2000

But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For judgment will return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart [will follow] after it.

Modern King James verseion

But judgment shall return to righteousness; and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And why? Judgment shall be turned again unto righteousness, and all such as are true in heart shall follow it.

NET Bible

For justice will prevail, and all the morally upright will be vindicated.

New Heart English Bible

For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.

The Emphasized Bible

For, unto righteousness, shall the judicial sentence return, Then shall follow it - all the upright in heart.

Webster

But judgment shall return to righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

World English Bible

For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.

Youngs Literal Translation

For to righteousness judgment turneth back, And after it all the upright of heart,

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
But judgment
משׁפּט 
Mishpat 
Usage: 421

שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

אחר 
'achar 
Usage: 488

Verse Info

Context Readings

A Prayer For Retribution Against Oppressors

14 For Jehovah will not cast off his people, and he will not forsake his inheritance. 15 For judgment shall turn back even to justice: and after it all the upright of heart 16 Who shall rise up for me against those doing evil? who shall stand for me against those working iniquity?


Cross References

Micah 7:9

The anger of Jehovah I will bear, for I sinned against him till he shall maintain my contention, and do my judgment: he will bring me forth to the light, I shall look upon his justice.

Deuteronomy 32:35-36

To me vengeance and requital; At the time their foot shall waver: For the day of their destruction is near, And he hastened things prepared for them

Job 17:9

And the just shall hold on his way, and the clean one of hands shall add strength.

Job 23:11-12

My foot laid hold upon his going, I watched his way and not softly.

Job 35:14

Also if thou shalt say thou wilt not see him, judgment is before him, and thou shalt wait for him.

Psalm 7:8-9

Jehovah shall judge peoples: judge me, O Jehovah, according to my justice, and according to mine integrity upon me.

Psalm 9:16

And Jehovah was known by the judgment he did: by the work of his hands the unjust was snared. Meditation. Silence.

Psalm 37:5-7

Roll thy way upon Jehovah, and trust upon him, and he will work.

Psalm 37:34

Wait for Jehovah and watch his way, and be will exalt thee to inherit the earth: in the cutting off the unjust thou shalt see.

Psalm 58:11

And man shall say, Truly, fruit to the just one: truly there is a God judging in the earth.

Psalm 94:2-3

Be thou lifted up judging the earth: turn back retribution upon the proud.

Psalm 97:2

A cloud and darkness round about him: justice and judgment the preparing of his throne.

Psalm 125:3-5

For the rod of the unjust one shall not rest upon the lot of the just; so that the just shall not stretch forth their hand in iniquity.

Isaiah 42:3

A broken reed he shall not break, and bedimmed flax shall he not quench it: he shall bring forth judgment to truth.

Malachi 3:18

And ye turned back and saw between the just to the unjust, and between him serving God and to him serving him not

James 5:7-11

Therefore be longsuffering, brethren, even to the arrival of the Lord. Behold, the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, being longsuffering for it, even till he should receive the early and late rain.

2 Peter 3:8-10

And let not this one thing be unknown to you, dearly beloved, that one day with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they had remained with us, but, that they might be manifested, that they are not all of us.

Revelation 15:3-4

And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful thy works, O Lord God, Omnipotent Ruler; just and true thy ways, King of the holy.

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