Psalms 75:2
1 We give thanks to You, O God; we give thanks, for Your Name is near. The people declare Your wondrous works.
“When I choose a time, I will judge fairly.
3 When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah
4 I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “When I choose a time, I will judge fairly.
- KJV
- When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
- WEB
- When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.
- ASV
- When I shall find the set time, I will judge uprightly.
- DARBY
- When I shall receive the assembly, I will judge with equity.
- BLB
- “When I take the appointed place, I will judge uprightly.
- ÅB
- For [så sier Herren]: Jeg vil gripe den fastsatte tid, jeg vil dømme med rettferdighet.
- OTB
- "Når jeg velger det rette øyeblikket,
Er det jeg som dømmer med rettferdighet. - B1930
- For [så sier Herren]: Jeg vil gripe den fastsatte tid, jeg vil dømme med rettferdighet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”
Read in contextActs 17:31
For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
Read in contextJohn 7:6
Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
Read in contextActs 1:7
Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
Read in contextPsalms 102:13
You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor— the appointed time has come.
Read in context2 Samuel 5:3
So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where King David made with them a covenant before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel.
Read in context2 Samuel 23:3–4
The God of Israel spoke; the Rock of Israel said to me, ‘He who rules the people with justice, who rules in the fear of God,
Read in contextPsalms 78:70–72
He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
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