Psalms 9:4 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 9:4

For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; Thou sittest in the throne judging righteously.

KJV

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

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Commentary

3 voices

Salvian the Presbyter

THE GOVERNANCE OF GOD 2:6 (500)

The same prophet showed elsewhere the difference between the present and future judgment of God. What did he say to the Lord about the verdict of the immediate trial? You have sat on the throne, you who judge justice. And what of God's future and …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

God sits in the throne of judgment. To him it belongs to decide controversies, to determine appeals, to avenge the injured, and to punish the injurious; for he has said, Vengeance is mine. We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth and that with him there is no unrighteousness.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause - My righteous cause; that is, when he was unequally attacked. When his enemies came upon him in an unprovoked and cruel manner, God had interposed and had defended his cause. This shows that the psalmist refers to something that had occurred in the past; also that he regarded his cause as right - for the interposition of God in his behalf had confirmed him in this belief.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
עָ֭שִׂיתָ	'A.si.ta	you have done	H6213 →
מִשְׁפָּטִ֣י	mish.pa.Ti	justice my	H4941 →
וְדִינִ֑י	ve.di.Ni	and cause my	H1779 →
יָשַׁ֥בְתָּ	ya.Shav.ta	you have sat	H3427 →
לְ֝כִסֵּ֗א	le.khi.Se'	to a throne	H3678 →
שׁוֹפֵ֥ט	sho.Fet	judging	H8199 →
צֶֽדֶק׃	Tze.dek	righteousness	H6664 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Peter 2:23
When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.
leads to
- Isaiah 53:7
  He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not…
- 1 Peter 4:19
  So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should entrust their souls to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.
- Hebrews 12:3
  Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
- Psalms 37:5
  Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.
Through
Isaiah 11:4
but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the…
leads to
- 2 Thessalonians 2:8
  And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
- Revelation 19:15
  And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath…
- Proverbs 31:8–9
  Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
- Job 4:9
  By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Psalms