KJV King James Version
The LORD [is] righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
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Psalm 129:4
The LORD [is] righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.
WEB World English Bible
Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
ASV American Standard Version
Jehovah is righteous: He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Jehovah is righteous, He hath cut asunder cords of the wicked.
Surrounding context — Psalm 129
1 A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
4 The LORD [is] righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
6 Let them be as the grass [upon] the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
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Psalm 119:137TZADDI. Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, and upright [are] thy judgments.Lamentations 3:22[It is of] the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.Daniel 9:7O Lord, righteousness [belongeth] unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, [that are] near, and [that are] far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.Psalm 124:6-7Blessed [be] the LORD, who hath not given us [as] a prey to their teeth.Nehemiah 9:33Howbeit thou [art] just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:Psalm 140:5-11The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.Lamentations 1:18The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.Ezra 9:15O LORD God of Israel, thou [art] righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as [it is] this day: behold, we [are] before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
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