Psalm 9:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; Thou satest in the throne judging right.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ For You have maintained my right and my cause; You sat on the throne judging righteously.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; Thou sittest in the throne judging righteously.

Common English Bible

⁴ because you have established justice for me and my claim, because you rule from the throne, establishing justice rightly.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ For my enemy will be turned back. They will be weakened and perish before your face.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened and perish before thy face.

Psalm 9:4 Cross References

1 Kings 8:45

then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea and maintain their cause.

Psalm 140:12

I know that the Lord maintains the cause of the needy and executes justice for the poor.

Psalm 16:5

The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot.

Psalm 47:8

God is king over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.

Psalm 89:14

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.

Psalm 96:13

before the Lord, for he is coming, for he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with his truth.

Psalm 98:9

at the presence of the Lord, for he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.

Isaiah 11:4

but with righteousness he shall judge for the poor and decide with equity for the oppressed of the earth; he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.

1 Peter 2:23

When he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly.