Psalm 98:9 {97:9}
Good News Translation
because he comes to rule the earth. He will rule the peoples of the world with justice and fairness.

New Revised Standard Version
at the presence of the LORD, for he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

Contemporary English Version
Let them worship the LORD! He is coming to judge everyone on the earth, and he will be honest and fair.

New American Bible
Before the LORD who comes, who comes to govern the earth, To govern the world with justice and the peoples with fairness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

for he cometh

Psalm 96:10,13 Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned. For he hath corrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the people with justice. . . .

Revelation 1:7 Behold, he cometh with the clouds, and every eye shall see him: and they also that pierced him. And all the tribes of the earth shall bewail themselves because of him. Even so. Amen.

with righteousness

Psalm 67:4 Let the nations be glad and rejoice: for thou judgest the people with justice, and directest the nations upon earth.

Psalm 72:2 Give to the king thy judgment, O God, and to the king's son thy justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment.

Isaiah 5:16 And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.

Acts 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in equity, by the man whom he hath appointed: giving faith to all, by raising him up from the dead.

Acts 24:25 And as he treated of justice and chastity and of the judgment to come, Felix, being terrified, answered: For this time, go thy way: but when I have a convenient time, I will send for thee.

Romans 2:5,6 But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God: . . .

Context
Sing to the LORD a New Song
8The rivers shall clap their hands, the mountains shall rejoice together 9At the presence of the Lord: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with equity.
Cross References
Acts 17:31
Because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in equity, by the man whom he hath appointed: giving faith to all, by raising him up from the dead.

1 Samuel 2:10
The adversaries of the Lord shall fear him: and upon them shall he thunder in the heavens: The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, and he shall give empire to his king, and shall exalt the horn of his Christ.

Psalm 7:8
The Lord judgeth the people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my justice, and according to my innocence in me.

Psalm 9:8
And he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the people in justice.

Psalm 17:2
Let my judgment come forth from thy countenance: let thy eyes behold the things that are equitable.

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

Psalm 67:4
Let the nations be glad and rejoice: for thou judgest the people with justice, and directest the nations upon earth.

Psalm 96:10
Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned. For he hath corrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the people with justice.

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 99:4
And the king's honour loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared directions: thou hast done judgment and justice in Jacob.

Ecclesiastes 3:17
And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing.

Joel 3:12
Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about.

Psalm 98:8
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