Verse 9

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Åpne din munn, døm rettferdig, og forsvar de fattige og trengende.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Åpne din munn, døm rettferdig, og forsvar den fattiges og trengendes sak.

• Norsk King James

  Åpne din munn, døm rettferdig, og tal for de fattige og trengende.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Åpne din munn, døm rettferdig, og forsvar den hjelpeløse og fattiges sak.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Åpne din munn, døm rettferdig, og forsvar de fattige og trengende.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Åpne din munn, døm rettferdig, og tal de fattiges og nødlidenes sak.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Åpne din munn, døm rettferdig, og tal for de fattige og trengende.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Åpne din munn, døm rettferdig, og tal de fattiges og nødlidenes sak.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Åpne din munn, døm rettferdig, og forsvar den fattige og trengendes sak.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Åpne din munn og døm rettferdig, forsvar de fattige og trengende.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Oplad din Mund, døm Retfærdighed og en Elendigs og Fattigs Sag.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Åpne din munn, døm rettferdig, og før saken til den fattige og trengende.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Åpne din munn, døm rettferdig, og gi de fattige og trengende deres rett."

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Åpne din munn, døm rettferdig, og forsvar de fattige og trengende!

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Åpne din munn, døm rettferdig, og gi rett til den fattige og nødlidende.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Åpne din munn, døm rettferdig, gi riktige avgjørelser i saken til de fattige og trengende.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  With yi mouth defende ye thinge yt is laufull and right, and ye cause of ye poore and helplesse.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Open thy mouth: iudge righteously, and iudge the afflicted, and the poore.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Open thy mouth, defende the thyng that is lawfull and ryght, and the cause of the poore and helpelesse.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Open your mouth, judge righteously, And serve justice to the poor and needy."

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Open thy mouth, judge righteously, And minister justice to the poor and needy.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy."

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Open your mouth, judge in righteousness, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 1:17 : 17 Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
• Lev 19:15 : 15 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.
• Deut 1:16 : 16 And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger who is with him.
• Job 29:15-16 : 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the case I did not know.
• Jer 22:15-16 : 15 Shall you reign, because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD.
• Jer 23:5 : 5 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
• Dan 4:27 : 27 Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of your tranquility.
• Amos 5:11-12 : 11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
• Zech 7:9 : 9 Thus says the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother:
• Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes to you: he is just, and endowed with salvation; lowly, and riding upon a donkey, and upon a colt the foal of a donkey.
• John 7:24 : 24 Judge not according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.
• Heb 1:9 : 9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your companions.
• Rev 19:11 : 11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he who sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.
• Ps 58:1-2 : 1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? Do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men? 2 Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
• Ps 72:1-2 : 1 Give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son. 2 He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
• Prov 16:12 : 12 It is an abomination for kings to commit wickedness, for the throne is established by righteousness.
• Prov 20:8 : 8 A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
• Deut 16:18-20 : 18 Judges and officers you shall make for yourself in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment. 19 You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe: for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous. 20 That which is altogether just you shall follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.
• 2 Sam 8:15 : 15 And David reigned over all Israel, and David executed judgment and justice for all his people.
• Job 29:12 : 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless, and the one who had no helper.
• Isa 1:23 : 23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they do not judge the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.
• Isa 11:4 : 4 But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.
• Isa 32:1-2 : 1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule with justice. 2 And a man shall be like a shelter from the wind, and a refuge from the storm; like rivers of water in a dry place, like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
• Jer 5:28 : 28 They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.
• Jer 22:3 : 3 Thus says the LORD; Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.