the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Psalms 17:2
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Let my vindication come from you,for you see what is right.
Let my sentence come forth from your presence; Let your eyes look on equity.
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
From your presence let my vindication come! Let your eyes behold the right!
You will judge that I am right; your eyes can see what is true.
Make a just decision on my behalf! Decide what is right!
Let my verdict of vindication come from Your presence; May Your eyes look with equity and behold things that are just.
Let my judgment come forth from Your presence; Let Your eyes look with integrity.
Let my sentence come forth from your presence; Let your eyes look on equity.
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence, and let thine eyes beholde equitie.
May my judgment come from Your presence;May Your eyes behold what is upright.
May my vindication come from Your presence; may Your eyes see what is right.
Let my vindication come from you, let your eyes see what is right.
Let my judgment come forth from thy presence, let thine eyes regard equity.
You will make the right decision, because you can see the truth.
Let my judgment come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are just.
You will judge in my favor, because you know what is right.
Let my vindication come forth from you; let your eyes see fairness.
Let my judgment go out from Your face; Your eyes see uprightly.
Let my sentence come forth fro thy presence, and loke vpon the thinge that is equall.
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; Let thine eyes look upon equity.
Be my judge; for your eyes see what is right.
Let my judgment come forth from Thy presence; let Thine eyes behold equity.
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence: let thine eyes beholde the things that are equall.
Let iudgement come foorth for me from thy face: and let thine eyes loke vpon equitie.
Let my judgment come forth from thy presence; let mine eyes behold righteousness.
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes look upon equity.
Mi doom come `forth of thi cheer; thin iyen se equite.
Let my sentence come forth from your presence; Let your eyes look at equity.
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thy eyes behold the things that are equal.
Let my vindication come from Your presence; Let Your eyes look on the things that are upright.
Declare me innocent, for you see those who do right.
May You decide in my favor. May Your eyes see what is right.
From you let my vindication come; let your eyes see the right.
From before thee, let my sentence come forth, Thine eyes, behold with equity.
(16-2) Let my judgment come forth from thy countenance: let thy eyes behold the things that are equitable.
From thee let my vindication come! Let thy eyes see the right!
From before thee my judgment doth go out; Thine eyes do see uprightly.
Let my judgment come forth from Your presence; Let Your eyes look with equity.
Contextual Overview
(A prayer by David.)
I am innocent, Lord ! Won't you listen as I pray and beg for help? I am honest! Please hear my prayer. 2 Only you can say that I am innocent, because only your eyes can see the truth. 3 You know my heart, and even during the night you have tested me and found me innocent. I have made up my mind never to tell a lie. 4 I don't do like others. I obey your teachings and am not cruel. 5 I have followed you, without ever stumbling. 6 I pray to you, God, because you will help me. Listen and answer my prayer! 7 Show your wonderful love. Your mighty arm protects those who run to you for safety from their enemies.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Let my: Psalms 37:6, Psalms 37:33, 2 Thessalonians 1:6-9, Jude 1:24
things: Ezekiel 18:25, Ezekiel 18:29, Ezekiel 33:17, Ezekiel 33:20
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 20:15 - Be not afraid Job 31:6 - Let me be weighed in an even balance Psalms 7:8 - according Psalms 71:2 - in thy
Cross-References
I am going to make a solemn promise to you and to everyone who will live after you.
I will bless you and make your descendants into a great nation. You will become famous and be a blessing to others.
I will give you more descendants than there are specks of dust on the earth, and someday it will be easier to count the specks of dust than to count your descendants.
At that time the Lord made an agreement with Abram and told him: I will give your descendants the land east of the Shihor River on the border of Egypt as far as the Euphrates River.
I promise that you will be the father of many nations. That's why I now change your name from Abram to Abraham.
I will give you a lot of descendants, and in the future they will become great nations. Some of them will even be kings.
I will give you and them the land in which you are now a foreigner. I will give the whole land of Canaan to your family forever, and I will be their God.
Abraham bowed with his face to the ground and thought, "I am almost a hundred years old. How can I become a father? And Sarah is ninety. How can she have a child?" So he started laughing.
Then he asked God, "Why not let Ishmael inherit what you have promised me?"
"I will bless you and give you such a large family, that someday your descendants will be more numerous than the stars in the sky or the grains of sand along the beach. They will defeat their enemies and take over the cities where their enemies live.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence,.... Not of condemnation, such as came forth from God and passed on Adam and all his posterity, Romans 5:12; though such an one was executed on Christ, as he was the surety and representative of his people; but of justification, which came forth from God and passed on Christ, when he rose from the dead, and upon his people in him, 1 Timothy 3:16. Here it chiefly designs the vindication of the innocence of the psalmist before men; and his request is, that as he was fully persuaded that he was clear of the things he was charged with in the sight of God, that he would openly and publicly make him appear so before men; that he would bring forth his righteousness as the light, and his judgment as the noonday, Psalms 37:6; and of which he made no doubt but he would; so Christ, though he was traduced by men, knew he should be justified by his Father, and by his children, Isaiah 50:8;
let thine eyes behold the things that are equal; which is not to be understood barely of the eyes of his omniscience; for these behold things both equal and unequal, good and evil, things which agree and disagree with the law of God, the rule of righteousness and equity; but of his approbation of them, and that he would some way or other testify that approbation; for the petition intends the favouring of his just and equal cause, and making it to appear to be so.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Let my sentence - Hebrew, “my judgment.” The allusion is to a judgment or sentence as coming from God in regard to the matter referred to in the psalm, to wit, the injuries which he had received from his enemies. He felt that they had done him injustice and wrong; he felt assured that a sentence or judgment from God in the case would be in his favor. So Job often felt that if he could bring his case directly before God, God would decide in his favor. Compare Job 23:1-6.
Come forth from thy presence - From before thee. That is, he asks God to pronounce a sentence in his case.
Let thine eyes behold - He asked God to examine the case with his own eyes, or attentively to consider it, and to see where justice was.
The things that are equal - The things that are just and right. He felt assured that his own cause was right, and he prays here that justice in the case may be done. He felt that, if that were done, he would be delivered from his enemies. As between ourselves and our fellow-men, it is right to pray to God that he would see that exact justice should be done, for we may be able to feel certain that justice is on our side, and that we are injured by them; but as between ourselves and God, we can never offer that prayer, for if justice were done to us we could not but be condemned. Before him our plea must be for mercy, not justice.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 17:2. My sentence come forth from thy presence — Thou knowest my heart, and my ways; judge me as thou shalt find; let me not fall under the judgment of man.
Let thine eyes behold the things that are equal. — Thou knowest whether I render to all their due, and whether others act justly by me. Thou canst not be deceived: do justice between me and my adversaries.
