Genesis 16:5

Modern English Version

Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my maid into your arms; and when she saw that she had conceived, I became despised in her eyes. May the Lord judge between you and me.”

Cross References

Genesis 16:4

He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, she began to despise her mistress.

Genesis 31:53

The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob vowed by the Fear of his father Isaac.

2 Chronicles 24:22

And Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada the father of Zechariah had shown him, but killed his son. As he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see and avenge!”

Psalm 35:23

Stir up Yourself, and awake for my defense, for my cause, my God and my Lord!

Psalm 43:1

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly people; deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!

Psalm 7:8

The Lord will judge the peoples; grant me justice, O  Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity within me.

Exodus 5:21

And they said to them, “May the Lord look on you and judge, because you have made our scent stink in the estimation of Pharaoh and in the estimation of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.”

Jeremiah 51:35

May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, “May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,” Jerusalem will say.

Judges 11:27

So I have not sinned against you, but it is you who are doing evil to me by waging war against me. May the Lord, the Judge, judge today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”

1 Samuel 24:16

When David finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.