Psalms 17:2

17:2 Make a just decision on my behalf! ¹ 

Decide what is right! ² 

Psalms 119:7

119:7 I will give you sincere thanks, ³ 

when I learn your just regulations.

Psalms 119:13

119:13 With my lips I proclaim

all the regulations you have revealed. ⁴ 

Psalms 119:106

119:106 I have vowed and solemnly sworn

to keep your just regulations.

Psalms 119:164

119:164 Seven ⁵  times a day I praise you

because of your just regulations.

Psalms 109:31

109:31 because he stands at the right hand of the needy,

to deliver him from those who threaten ⁶  his life.

Psalms 119:62

119:62 In the middle of the night I arise ⁷  to thank you

for your just regulations.

Psalms 9:4

9:4 For you defended my just cause; ⁸ 

from your throne you pronounced a just decision. ⁹ 

Psalms 19:9

19:9 The commands to fear the Lord are right ¹⁰ 

and endure forever. ¹¹ 

The judgments given by the Lord are trustworthy

and absolutely just. ¹² 

[17:2]  ¹ tn Heb “From before you may my justice come out.” The prefixed verbal form יָצָא (yatsa’) could be taken as an imperfect, but following the imperatives in v. 1, it is better understood as a jussive of prayer.

[17:2]  ² tn Heb “May your eyes look at what is right.” The prefixed verbal form is understood as jussive. (See also the preceding note on the word “behalf.”)

[119:7]  ³ tn Heb “I will give you thanks with an upright heart.”

[119:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “of your mouth.”

[119:164]  ⁷ tn The number “seven” is use rhetorically to suggest thoroughness.

[109:31]  ⁹ tn Heb “judge.”

[119:62]  ¹¹ tn The psalmist uses an imperfect verbal form to emphasize that this is his continuing practice.

[9:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “for you accomplished my justice and my legal claim.”

[9:4]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “you sat on a throne [as] one who judges [with] righteousness.” The perfect verbal forms in v. 4 probably allude to a recent victory (see vv. 5-7). Another option is to understand the verbs as describing what is typical (“you defend…you sit on a throne”).

[19:9]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the fear of the Lord is clean.” The phrase “fear of the Lord” probably refers here to the law, which teaches one how to demonstrate proper reverence for the Lord. See Ps 111:10 for another possible use of the phrase in this sense.

[19:9]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “[it] stands permanently.”

[19:9]  ¹⁷ sn Trustworthy and absolutely just. The Lord’s commands accurately reflect God’s moral will for his people and are an expression of his just character.