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Hear My Righteous Plea

Psalms 17:2

In 11 translations

BSB
May my vindication come from Your presence; may Your eyes see what is right.
KJV
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
WEB
Let my sentence come out of your presence. Let your eyes look on equity.
ASV
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; Let thine eyes look upon equity.
LSV
My judgment goes out from before You; Your eyes see uprightly.
YLT
From before thee my judgment doth go out; Thine eyes do see uprightly.
DBY
Let my judgment come forth from thy presence, let thine eyes regard equity.
DRC16:2
Let my judgment come forth from thy countenance: let thy eyes behold the things that are equitable.
GNV
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence, and let thine eyes beholde equitie.
JPS
Let my judgment come forth from Thy presence; let Thine eyes behold equity.
LXXE16:2
Let my judgment come forth from thy presence; let mine eyes behold righteousness.

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Original-language editions

WLC
מִ֭לְּפָנֶיךָ מִשְׁפָּטִ֣י יֵצֵ֑א עֵ֝ינֶ֗יךָ תֶּחֱזֶ֥ינָה מֵישָׁרִֽים׃
LXX-Br16:2
Ἐκ προσώπου σου τὸ κρίμα μου ἐξέλθοι, οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου ἰδέτωσαν εὐθύτητας.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 37:6He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.
  • 2 Thessalonians 1:6–9After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with…
  • Ezekiel 18:25Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
  • Ezekiel 18:29Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
  • Jude 1:24Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
  • Psalms 37:33the LORD will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned under judgment.
  • Ezekiel 33:17Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
  • Ezekiel 33:20Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.”

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 16:2 in some Bibles
  • 17:2 in most Bibles

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