Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The king's power loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared equity; thou hast executed judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
New American Standard Bible
You have established
You have
King James Version
The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
Holman Bible
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.
Julia Smith Translation
And the king's strength loved judgment; thou didst prepare uprightnesses, thou didst judgment and justice 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.
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.
Topics
Interlinear
Mishpat
משׁפּט
Mishpat
judgment, manner, right, cause, ordinance, lawful, order, worthy, fashion, custom, discretion, law, measure, sentence,
Usage: 421
Kuwn
meyshar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 99:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Is A Holy King
3 O let men give thanks unto thy great and wonderful name, for it is holy. 4 The king's power loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared equity; thou hast executed judgment and righteousness in Jacob. 5 O magnify the LORD our God; fall down before his footstool, for he is holy.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 11:7
For the LORD is righteous, and he loveth righteousness: his countenance will behold the thing that is just.
Job 36:5-7
"Behold, God casteth not away the mighty, for he himself is mighty in power and wisdom.
Jeremiah 23:5
"Behold, the time cometh, sayeth the LORD, that I will raise up the righteous Branch of David, which shall bear rule, and discuss matters with wisdom, and shall set up equity and righteousness again in the earth.
Deuteronomy 10:18
but doeth right unto the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.
Deuteronomy 32:3-4
For I will call on the name of the LORD: Magnify the might of our God!
2 Samuel 23:3-4
The God of Israel spake unto me, and the strength of Israel said, 'He that beareth rule over men, he that ruleth justly in the fear of God,
Job 37:23
It is not we that can find out the Almighty: for in power, equity, and righteousness, he is higher than can be expressed.
Psalm 45:6-7
Thy seat, O God, endureth forever: the scepter of thy kingdom is a right scepter.
Psalm 72:1-2
{Of Solomon} Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.
Psalm 98:9
before the LORD; for he is come to judge the earth. With righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
Isaiah 9:7
He shall make no end to increase the kingdom and peace, and shall sit upon the seat of David and in his kingdom, to set up the same: to establish it with equity and righteousness, from thenceforth for evermore. This shall the jealousy of the LORD of hosts bring to pass.
Isaiah 11:3-5
And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes: neither shall rebuke after the hearing of his ears.
Isaiah 42:4
He shall neither be overseen nor hasty, that he may restore righteousness unto the earth: and the Gentiles also shall keep his laws.
Isaiah 61:11
For like as the ground bringeth forth fruit, and as the garden shooteth forth seed; So shall the LORD God cause righteousness and the fear of God to flourish forth before all the Heathen.
Jude 1:15
to give judgment against all men, and to rebuke all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their cruel speakings, which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
Revelation 19:11
And I saw heaven open, and behold a white horse: and he that sat upon him was faithful and true, and in righteousness did judge and make battle.
Revelation 19:16
And hath on his vesture and on his thigh, a name written, "King of Kings, and Lord of lords."