Psalms 135:14
For the LORD will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants.
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ASV
For Jehovah will judge his people, And repent himself concerning his servants.
KJV
For the Lord will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.
For the Lord will judge his people,.... Rule and govern, protect and defend them; plead their cause, and avenge them of their enemies; judge between them, distinguish them by his care and providence, make them visible, so that others shall see the difference between them; especially at the last day, when he will judge them, and, as the righteous Judge, give them the crown of righteousness.
For the Lord will judge his people. He will exercise personal discipline over them, and not leave it to their foes to maltreat them at pleasure. When the correction is ended he will arise and avenge them of their oppressors, who for a while were used by him as his rod. He may seem to forget his people, but it is not so; he will undertake their cause and deliver them. The judges of Israel were also her deliverers, and such is the Lord of hosts: in this sense—as ruling, preserving, and delivering his chosen—Jehovah will judge his people.
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Jonah 4:2So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish.…
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But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon…
So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.
The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.
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Psalms 7:8The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.
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before the LORD, for He is coming— He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in His faithfulness.
Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.
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Psalms 50:4He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:
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Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officers so that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.