Psalm 9:4 {5}
Good News Translation
You are fair and honest in your judgments, and you have judged in my favor.

New Revised Standard Version
For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.

Contemporary English Version
You take your seat as judge, and your fair decisions prove that I was in the right.

New American Bible
For you upheld my right and my cause, seated on your throne, judging justly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice.

For

Psalm 16:5 The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.

Psalm 140:12 I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.

maintained.

Psalm 45:6,7 Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of uprightness. . . .

Psalm 47:8 God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth on his holy throne.

Psalm 89:14 Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:

Psalm 96:13 before the face of the Lord, because he cometh: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with his truth.

Psalm 98:9 At the presence of the Lord: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with equity.

Isaiah 11:4 But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with equity 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.

1 Peter 2:23 Who, when he was reviled, did not revile: when he suffered, he threatened not, but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly.

Context
I Will Give Thanks to the LORD
3When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened, and perish before thy face. 4For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice.5Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.…
Cross References
Psalm 9:16
The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: the sinner hath been caught in the works of his own hands.

Psalm 17:1
The prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my justice: attend to my supplication. Give ear unto my prayer, which proceedeth not from deceitful lips.

Psalm 35:24
Judge me, O Lord my God according to thy justice, and let them not rejoice over me.

Psalm 35:27
Let them rejoice and be glad, who are well pleased with my justice, and let them say always: The Lord be magnified, who delights in the peace of his servant.

Psalm 50:6
And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.

Psalm 140:12
I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.

Psalm 9:3
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