Psalm 99:4
New International Version
The King is mighty, he loves justice— you have established equity; in Jacob you have done what is just and right.

New Living Translation
Mighty King, lover of justice, you have established fairness. You have acted with justice and righteousness throughout Israel.

English Standard Version
The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Berean Standard Bible
The mighty King loves justice. You have established equity; You have exercised justice and righteousness in Jacob.

King James Bible
The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

New King James Version
The King’s strength also loves justice; You have established equity; You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

New American Standard Bible
The strength of the King loves justice; You have established order; You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

NASB 1995
The strength of the King loves justice; You have established equity; You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

NASB 1977
And the strength of the King loves justice; Thou hast established equity; Thou hast executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Legacy Standard Bible
The strength of the King loves justice; You have established equity; You have done justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Amplified Bible
The strength of the King loves justice and righteous judgment; You have established fairness; You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob (Israel).

Christian Standard Bible
The mighty King loves justice. You have established fairness; you have administered justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The mighty King loves justice. You have established fairness; You have administered justice and righteousness in Jacob.

American Standard Version
The king's strength also loveth justice; Thou dost establish equity; Thou executest justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For the strength of the King loves justice; you have prepared integrity and judgment and you have performed righteousness in Jacob.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the king's honour loves judgment; thou hast prepared equity, thou hast wrought judgment and justice in Jacob.

Contemporary English Version
You are our mighty King, a lover of fairness, who sees that justice is done everywhere in Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
and the king's honour loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared directions: thou hast done judgment and justice in Jacob.

English Revised Version
The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The king's strength is that he loves justice. You have established fairness. You have done what is fair and right for Jacob.

Good News Translation
Mighty king, you love what is right; you have established justice in Israel; you have brought righteousness and fairness.

International Standard Version
A mighty king who loves justice, you have established fairness. You have exercised justice and righteousness over Jacob.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The strength also of the king who loveth justice-- Thou hast established equity, Thou hast executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Literal Standard Version
And the strength of the king | Has loved judgment, | You have established uprightness; Judgment and righteousness in Jacob, | You have done.

Majority Standard Bible
The mighty King loves justice. You have established equity; You have exercised justice and righteousness in Jacob.

New American Bible
O mighty king, lover of justice, you have established fairness; you have created just rule in Jacob.

NET Bible
The king is strong; he loves justice. You ensure that legal decisions will be made fairly; you promote justice and equity in Jacob.

New Revised Standard Version
Mighty King, lover of justice, you have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

New Heart English Bible
The King's strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Webster's Bible Translation
The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

World English Bible
The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Young's Literal Translation
And the strength of the king Hath loved judgment, Thou -- Thou hast established uprightness; Judgment and righteousness in Jacob, Thou -- Thou hast done.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The LORD Reigns
3Let them praise Your great and awesome name—He is holy! 4The mighty King loves justice. You have established equity; You have exercised justice and righteousness in Jacob. 5Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at His footstool; He is holy!…

Cross References
Psalm 11:7
For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.

Psalm 17:2
May my vindication come from Your presence; may Your eyes see what is right.

Psalm 33:5
The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His loving devotion.

Psalm 98:9
before the LORD, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.

Psalm 103:6
The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

Psalm 146:7
He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,

Jeremiah 23:5
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.


Treasury of Scripture

The king's strength also loves judgment; you do establish equity, you execute judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

strength

Psalm 45:6,7
Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre…

Psalm 72:1,2
A Psalm for Solomon. Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son…

Deuteronomy 32:3,4
Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God…

thou dost

Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

Isaiah 42:4
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

executest

Deuteronomy 10:18
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

Jude 1:15
To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

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Psalm 99
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Verse 4. - The King's strength also loveth judgment. "The king" is here the Lord, Jehovah (see Psalm 98:3). His "strength," or might, "loves," and is always combined with, right (comp. Isaiah 61:8, "I the Lord love judgment"). Thou dost establish equity. The pronoun is emphatic: "Thou, even thou" - nearly equivalent to "thou only" - "dost establish equity." Thou - again emphatic - "thou, even thou" - executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob; i.e. governest thy people Israel with strict and absolute justice.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The mighty
וְעֹ֥ז (wə·‘ōz)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5797: Strength, might

King
מֶלֶךְ֮ (me·leḵ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

loves
אָ֫הֵ֥ב (’ā·hêḇ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 157: To have affection f

justice.
מִשְׁפָּ֪ט (miš·pāṭ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

You
אַ֭תָּה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

have established
כּוֹנַ֣נְתָּ (kō·w·nan·tā)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3559: To be erect

equity;
מֵישָׁרִ֑ים (mê·šā·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4339: Evenness, prosperity, concord, straightness, rectitude

You
אַתָּ֬ה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

have exercised
עָשִֽׂיתָ׃ (‘ā·śî·ṯā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

justice
מִשְׁפָּ֥ט (miš·pāṭ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

and righteousness
וּ֝צְדָקָ֗ה (ū·ṣə·ḏā·qāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively

in Jacob.
בְּיַעֲקֹ֤ב ׀ (bə·ya·‘ă·qōḇ)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3290: Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc


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