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Contemporary English Version

Psalms 33:5

He loves justice and fairness, and he is kind to everyone everywhere on earth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   God Continued...;   Scofield Reference Index - Election;   Thompson Chain Reference - God;   God's;   Goodness, God's;   The Topic Concordance - Earth;   Goodness;   Judges;   Love;   Righteousness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Creation;   Earth, the;   Goodness of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Worship;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Justice;   Nature, Natural;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Goodness of God;   Humility;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hymn;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Ethics;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Justification (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - World (Cosmological);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Godliness;   Hope;   Shemoneh 'Esreh;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for March 22;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He loves righteousness and justice;the earth is full of the Lord’s unfailing love.
Hebrew Names Version
He loves righteousness and justice. The eretz is full of the lovingkindness of the LORD.
King James Version
He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord .
English Standard Version
He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord .
New Century Version
He loves what is right and fair; the Lord 's love fills the earth.
New English Translation
The Lord promotes equity and justice; the Lord 's faithfulness extends throughout the earth.
Amplified Bible
He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the lovingkindness of the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
World English Bible
He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the lovingkindness of Yahweh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He loueth righteousnesse and iudgement: the earth is full of the goodnesse of the Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible
He loves righteousness and justice;The earth is full of the lovingkindness of Yahweh.
Berean Standard Bible
The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His loving devotion.
Complete Jewish Bible
He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the grace of Adonai .
Darby Translation
He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the loving-kindness of Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
He loves goodness and justice. The Lord 's faithful love fills the earth.
George Lamsa Translation
He loves righteousness and judgment; the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
Good News Translation
The Lord loves what is righteous and just; his constant love fills the earth.
Lexham English Bible
He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loyal love of Yahweh.
Literal Translation
He loves righteousness and judgment; the mercy of Jehovah fills the earth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He loueth mercy & iudgment, ye earth is full of the goodnesse of the LORDE
American Standard Version
He loveth righteousness and justice: The earth is full of the lovingkindness of Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
His delight is in righteousness and wisdom; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He loveth righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the lovingkindness of the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
Hee loueth righteousnesse and iudgement: the earth is ful of the goodnesse of the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He loueth righteousnes & iudgement: the earth is ful of the goodnes of God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He loves mercy and judgment; the earth is full the mercy of the Lord.
English Revised Version
He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the lovingkindness of the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He loueth merci and doom; the erthe is ful of the merci of the Lord.
Update Bible Version
He loves righteousness and justice: The earth is full of the loving-kindness of Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
New King James Version
He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
New Living Translation
He loves whatever is just and good; the unfailing love of the Lord fills the earth.
New Life Bible
He loves what is right and good and what is fair. The earth is full of the loving-kindness of the Lord.
New Revised Standard
He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who loveth righteousness and justice, With the lovingkindness of Yahweh, the earth is full.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(32-5) He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.
Young's Literal Translation
Loving righteousness and judgment, Of the kindness of Jehovah is the earth full.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the lovingkindness of the Lord .

Contextual Overview

1 You are the Lord 's people. Obey him and celebrate! He deserves your praise. 2 Praise the Lord with harps! Use harps with ten strings to make music for him. 3 Sing a new song. Shout! Play beautiful music. 4 The Lord is truthful; he can be trusted. 5 He loves justice and fairness, and he is kind to everyone everywhere on earth. 6 The Lord made the heavens and everything in them by his word. 7 He scooped up the ocean and stored the water. 8 Everyone in this world should worship and honor the Lord ! 9 As soon as he spoke the world was created; at his command, the earth was formed. 10 The Lord destroys the plans and spoils the schemes of the nations.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He: Psalms 11:7, Psalms 45:7, Psalms 99:4, Hebrews 1:9, Revelation 15:3, Revelation 15:4

earth: Psalms 104:24, Psalms 119:64, Psalms 145:15, Psalms 145:16, Matthew 5:45, Acts 14:17

goodness: or, mercy

Reciprocal: Isaiah 61:8 - I the Lord Daniel 4:37 - all 2 Thessalonians 1:5 - righteous

Cross-References

Genesis 30:2
But Jacob became upset with Rachel and answered, "Don't blame me! I'm not God."
Ruth 4:13
Boaz married Ruth, and the Lord blessed her with a son.
1 Samuel 1:27
to give me a child. Here he is! The Lord gave me just what I asked for.
1 Chronicles 28:5
The Lord has blessed me with many sons, but he chose my son Solomon to be the next king of Israel.
Isaiah 8:18
My children and I are warning signs to Israel from the Lord All-Powerful, who lives on Mount Zion.
Hebrews 2:13
He also said, "I will trust God." Then he said, "Here I am with the children God has given me."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He loveth righteousness and judgment,.... Or "righteous judgment" y; he delights in the administration of it himself, Jeremiah 9:24; and he is well pleased with acts of righteousness done by others, when done according to his word, from love to him, by faith in him, and with a view to his glory; especially he loves the righteousness of his son, being satisfactory to his law and justice, and his people, as clothed with it; and he delights in the condemnation of sin in the flesh of Christ, and in the righteous judgment of the world, and the prince of it, by Christ;

the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord; of the providential goodness of God, of which all creatures partake; and of the special goodness or grace of God manifested in Christ Jesus; it was full of it particularly when Christ was here on earth, who is full of grace and truth; and when the Gospel of the grace of God was preached everywhere by his apostles, according to his order, and appeared to all men; and so it will be especially in the latter day, when multitudes will be called by grace and converted, and when the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord; and still more when it will become a new earth, wherein only righteous men will dwell.

y צדקה ומשפט "judicium justum", Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He loveth righteousness - See Psalms 11:7.

And judgment - justice.

The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord - Margin, “mercy.” So the Hebrew. That is, his mercy or goodness is manifest everywhere. Every part of the earth bears witness that he is good.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 33:5. He loveth righteousness — What he delights in himself, he loves to see in his followers.

The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. — To hear its worthless inhabitants complain, one would think that God dispensed evil, not good. To examine the operation of his hand, every thing is marked with mercy and there is no place where his goodness does not appear. The overflowing kindness of God fills the earth. Even the iniquities of men are rarely a bar to his goodness: he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends his rain upon the just and the unjust.


 
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