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Psalms 143:2
2Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you.
Psalms 143:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For in Your sight no one living is righteous.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Don’t put your servant on trial, for no one is innocent before you.
Context of Psalms 143:2
1Lord, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief. Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you. 3The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness like those long dead. 4So my spirit grows faint within me; my heart within me is dismayed.
Read all of Psalms 143Psalms 143:2 word by word
וְאַל־תָּב֣וֹא בְ֭מִשְׁפָּט אֶת־עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֤י לֹֽא־יִצְדַּ֖ק לְפָנֶ֣יךָ כָל־חָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 143:2
- Psalms 130:3If you, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
- Job 14:3Do you fix your eye on them? Will you bring them before you for judgment?
- Exodus 34:7maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”
- Job 4:17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
- Job 9:2“Indeed, I know that this is true. But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?
- Job 15:14“What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?
- Job 25:4How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- Ecclesiastes 7:20Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous, no one who does what is right and never sins.
- Romans 3:20Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
- Galatians 2:16know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
- 1 John 1:10If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.
Commentaries on Psalms 143:2
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2And enter not into judgment with thy servant - Do not deal with me on the ground of justice as toward “thee;” do not mark my own offences against thee, when I plead that justice may be done as between me and my fellow-men. While I plead that thou wouldst judge righteously between me and them, I am conscious that I could not claim thy needed interposition on the ground of any righteousness toward thee. There I must confess that I am a sinner; there I can…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2Everyone has sinned and is guilty before God (Romans 3:20–24).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. enter ... judgment--deal not in strict justice. shall no ... justified--or, "is no man justified," or "innocent" (Job 14:3; Ro 3:20).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 143
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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