English Standard Version
Psalms 17:2
2From your presence let my vindication come! Let your eyes behold the right!
Psalms 17:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
- New International Version (NIV)Let my vindication come from you; may your eyes see what is right.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Let my vindication come from Your presence; Let Your eyes look on the things that are upright.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Declare me innocent, for you see those who do right.
Context of Psalms 17:2
1Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit! From your presence let my vindication come! Let your eyes behold the right! 3You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress. 4With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.
Read all of Psalms 17Psalms 17:2 word by word
מִ֭לְּפָנֶיךָ מִשְׁפָּטִ֣י יֵצֵ֑א עֵ֝ינֶ֗יךָ תֶּחֱזֶ֥ינָה מֵישָׁרִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 17:2
- Psalms 37:6He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:6since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
- Jude 1:24Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,
- Ezekiel 18:25"Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?
- Ezekiel 33:17"Yet your people say, 'The way of the Lord is not just,' when it is their own way that is not just.
Commentaries on Psalms 17:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2My 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Let 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-15The psalmist asks for God's protection and justice, affirms his own integrity, and prays for the Lord to defeat his strong enemies.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-152. sentence--acquitting judgment. from thy presence--Thy tribunal. things that are equal--just and right, do Thou regard.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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