Psalms 9:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He judges the world with justice; He governs the people with equity.”
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“He judges the world with justice; He governs the people with equity.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And he will judge the world in righteousness, He will minister judgment to the peoples in uprightness.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And He judgeth the world in righteousness, He judgeth the peoples in uprightness.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 9:8 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 18:25Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
- Exodus 15:18The LORD will reign forever and ever!”
- Psalms 10:16The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations perish from His land.
- Psalms 29:10The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD is enthroned as King forever.
- Psalms 50:6And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah
- Psalms 94:15Surely judgment will again be righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
- Psalms 96:13before the LORD, for He is coming— He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in His faithfulness.
- Psalms 98:9before the LORD, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.
- Psalms 99:4The mighty King loves justice. You have established equity; You have exercised justice and righteousness in Jacob.
- Isaiah 11:4but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.
- Jeremiah 10:10But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
- Acts 17:31For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
- Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
- Romans 2:16on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.
- Revelation 20:12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
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