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Psalms 135:14

Mercy and compassionProtection and safety

12 He gave their land as an inheritance, as a heritage to His people Israel.

13 Your name, O LORD, endures forever, Your renown, O LORD, through all generations.

For the LORD will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants.

15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

16 They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;

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BSB
For the LORD will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants.
KJV
For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.
WEB
For the LORD will judge his people and have compassion on his servants.
ASV
For Jehovah will judge his people, And repent himself concerning his servants.
DARBY
For Jehovah will judge his people, and will repent in favour of his servants.
BLB
For YHWH will vindicate His people, and He will have compassion on His servants.
ÅB
For Herren skal dømme sitt folk, og han skal miskunne seg over sine tjenere.
OTB
For Herren vil dømme sitt folk
Og vil vise medfølelse med sine tjenere.
B1930
For Herren skal dømme sitt folk, og han skal miskunne sig over sine tjenere.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Deuteronomy 32:36

    For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.

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  • Jonah 4:2

    So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.

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  • Psalms 50:4

    He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:

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  • Psalms 7:8

    The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.

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  • Amos 7:6

    So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.

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  • Judges 10:16

    So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.

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  • Amos 7:3

    So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.

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  • 1 Chronicles 21:15

    Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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