KJV King James Version
Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
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Psalm 9:19
Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Rise up, O LORD, do not let man prevail; let the nations be judged in Your presence.
WEB World English Bible
Arise, Yahweh! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.
ASV American Standard Version
Arise, O Jehovah; Let not man prevail: Let the nations be judged in thy sight.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Rise, O Jehovah, let not man be strong, Let nations be judged before Thy face.
Surrounding context — Psalm 9
16 The LORD is known [by] the judgment [which] he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall [not] perish for ever.
19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
20 Put them in fear, O LORD: [that] the nations may know themselves [to be but] men. Selah.
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Psalm 44:26Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.Psalm 3:7Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies [upon] the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.Psalm 44:23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever.Psalm 74:22-23Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.Psalm 10:12Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.Psalm 149:7To execute vengeance upon the heathen, [and] punishments upon the people;Psalm 7:6Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me [to] the judgment [that] thou hast commanded.Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. [Art] thou not it that hath cut Rahab, [and] wounded the dragon?Revelation 19:15And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.Jeremiah 10:25Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.Zephaniah 3:8Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination [is] to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, [even] all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.Genesis 32:28And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.Joel 3:12Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.1 Samuel 2:9He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.Micah 5:15And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.Psalm 79:6Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.Isaiah 42:13-14The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.Psalm 76:8-9Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
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