Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Is a throne of mischief joined with Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?

New American Standard Bible

Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,
One which devises mischief by decree?

King James Version

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

Holman Bible

Can a corrupt throne—
one that creates trouble by law—
become Your ally?

International Standard Version

Will destructive national leaders, who plan wicked things through misuse of the Law, be allied with you?

A Conservative Version

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, which frames mischief by statute?

American Standard Version

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, Which frameth mischief by statute?

Amplified


Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,
One which frames and devises mischief by decree [under the sacred name of law]?

Bible in Basic English

What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?

Darby Translation

Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which frameth mischief into a law?

Julia Smith Translation

Shall the throne of mischief be joined together with thee forming labor upon the law?

King James 2000

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Can there be allied with you a throne of destruction, one that forms trouble based on statute?

Modern King James verseion

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with You, which frames mischief by a law?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Wilt thou have anything to do with the stool of wickedness, which imagineth mischief as a law?

NET Bible

Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws.

New Heart English Bible

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

The Emphasized Bible

Shall the throne that inflicteth ruin, have fellowship with thee, That frameth oppression, by statute?

Webster

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

World English Bible

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
כּסּה כּסּא 
Kicce' 
Usage: 135

יצר 
Yatsar 
Usage: 62

References

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

A Prayer For Retribution Against Oppressors

19 In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul. 20 Is a throne of mischief joined with Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute? 21 They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.


Cross References

Psalm 58:2

Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

Amos 6:3

Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence,

Isaiah 10:1

Woe to those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.

1 Samuel 22:12

and Saul saith, 'Hear, I pray thee, son of Ahitub;' and he saith, 'Here am I, my lord.'

1 Kings 12:32

and Jeroboam maketh a festival in the eighth month, in the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival that is in Judah, and he offereth on the altar -- so did he in Beth-El -- to sacrifice to the calves which he made, and he hath appointed in Beth-El the priests of the high places that he made.

2 Chronicles 6:14-16

and saith, 'O Jehovah God of Israel, there is not like Thee a god in the heavens and in the earth, keeping the covenant and the kindness for Thy servants who are walking before Thee with all their heart;

Esther 3:6-12

and it is contemptible in his eyes to put forth a hand on Mordecai by himself, for they have declared to him the people of Mordecai, and Haman seeketh to destroy all the Jews who are in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus -- the people of Mordecai.

Psalm 50:16

And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

Psalm 52:1

To the Overseer. -- An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, 'David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God is all the day.

Psalm 82:1

-- A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment -- there is the wicked; and the place of righteousness -- there is the wicked.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones are over them.

Isaiah 1:11-20

Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah, I have been satiated with burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have not desired.

Jeremiah 7:4-11

Do not trust for yourselves Unto the words of falsehood, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah are they!

Daniel 3:4-7

And a crier is calling mightily: 'To you they are saying: O peoples, nations, and languages!

Daniel 6:7-9

Taken counsel have all the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects, and the satraps, the counsellors, and the governors, to establish a royal statute, and to strengthen an interdict, that any who seeketh a petition from any god and man until thirty days, save of thee, O king, is cast into a den of lions.

Micah 6:16

And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!

John 9:22

These things said his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews, for already had the Jews agreed together, that if any one may confess him -- Christ, he may be put out of the synagogue;

John 11:57

and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew it, so that they may seize him.

John 18:28

They led, therefore, Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover;

1 John 1:5-6

And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;

Revelation 13:15-17

and there was given to it to give a spirit to the image of the beast, that also the image of the beast may speak, and that it may cause as many as shall not bow before the image of the beast, that they may be killed.

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