Psalms 7:8

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.”

— WEB

“The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.”

— KJV

“Jehovah ministereth judgment to the peoples: Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and to mine integrity that is in me.”

— ASV

Cross-references

Related verses via the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Psalms 96:13 "before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth."
Romans 14:10-12 "But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of …"
Psalms 43:1 "Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men."
2 Corinthians 1:12 "For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace …"
Psalms 98:9 "Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity."
1 Thessalonians 2:10 "You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe."
1 Corinthians 4:4-5 "For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord."
Psalms 78:72 "So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands."

Commentary

Though not claiming innocence in general, he can confidently do so in this case, and in demanding from the Judge of all the earth a judgment, he virtually asks acquittal.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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