Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

And the king's strength loved judgment; thou didst prepare uprightnesses, thou didst judgment and justice in Jacob.

New American Standard Bible

The strength of the King loves justice;
You have established equity;
You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

King James Version

The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

Holman Bible

The mighty King loves justice.
You have established fairness;
You have administered justice
and righteousness in Jacob.

International Standard Version

A mighty king who loves justice, you have established fairness. You have exercised justice and righteousness over Jacob.

A Conservative Version

The king's strength also loves justice. Thou establish equity. Thou execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

American Standard Version

The king's strength also loveth justice; Thou dost establish equity; Thou executest justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Amplified


The strength of the King loves justice and righteous judgment;
You have established fairness;
You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob (Israel).

Bible in Basic English

The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.

Darby Translation

And the strength of the king that loveth justice. Thou hast established equity: it is thou that executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

King James 2000

The king's strength also loves justice; you do establish equity, you execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And [the] strength of [the] king loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Modern King James verseion

The king's strength also loved judgment; You established uprightness; You worked judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The king's power loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared equity; thou hast executed judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

NET Bible

The king is strong; he loves justice. You ensure that legal decisions will be made fairly; you promote justice and equity in Jacob.

New Heart English Bible

The King's strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

The Emphasized Bible

Yea, with the strength of a king - justice, he loveth, - Thou, hast established equity, Justice and righteousness in Jacob, thou, hast wrought.

Webster

The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

World English Bible

The King's strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Youngs Literal Translation

And the strength of the king Hath loved judgment, Thou -- Thou hast established uprightness; Judgment and righteousness in Jacob, Thou -- Thou hast done.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

עוז עז 
`oz 
Usage: 55

אהב אהב 
'ahab 
Usage: 212

Context Readings

Yahweh Is A Holy King

3 They shall praise thy great and terrible name: he is holy. 4 And the king's strength loved judgment; thou didst prepare uprightnesses, thou didst judgment and justice in Jacob. 5 Exalt ye Jehovah our God, and worship at the footstool of his feet; he is holy.

Cross References

Psalm 11:7

For Jehovah the just loved justice; his face will behold the upright

Job 36:5-7

Behold, God is mighty, and he will not despise: mighty in strength of heart

Jeremiah 23:5

Behold the days coming, says Jehovah, and I raised up to David a just sprout, and a king reigned and prospered, and he did judgment and justice in the earth.

Deuteronomy 10:18

He did the judgment of the orphan and the widow, and he loved the stranger to give to him bread and a garment

Deuteronomy 32:3-4

For I will call the name of Jehovah: Give ye greatness to our God.

2 Samuel 23:3-4

The God of Israel said to me, the Rock of Israel spake a parable upon the just man: a parable to fear God.

Job 37:23

The Almighty we found not: great of power and judgment, and much justice, he will not afflict

Psalm 45:6-7

Thy throne, O God, forever and ever: a rod of straightness the rod of thy kingdom.

Psalm 72:1-2

To Solomon. O God, thou wilt give thy judgments to the king, and thy justice to the king's son.

Psalm 98:9

Before Jehovah; for he came to judge the earth: he will judge the habitable globe in justice, and the peoples in uprightness

Isaiah 9:7

To the increase of his dominion and to peace no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to prepare it and to support it in judgment and in justice from now and even to forever: the zeal of Jehovah of armies will do this.

Isaiah 11:3-5

His sweet odor in the fear of Jehovah: and not according to the seeing of his eyes shall he judge, and not according to the hearing of his ears shall he decide.

Isaiah 42:4

He shall not be weak, and he shall not break, till he shall set judgment in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law:

Isaiah 61:11

For as the earth will bring forth her sprout, and as a garden will cause the things sown to sprout, so the Lord Jehovah will cause justice and praise to sprout before all nations.

Jude 1:15

To do judgment to all, and to convince all their irreligious of all their works of irreligion which they have impiously acted, and of all the hard things which the sinful irreligious spake against him.

Revelation 19:11

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he sitting upon him called Faithful and True, and in justice he judges and makes war.

Revelation 19:16

And he has upon the garment and upon his thigh the name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

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