Psalm 72:2
Modern Translations
New International Version
May he judge your people in righteousness, your afflicted ones with justice.

New Living Translation
Help him judge your people in the right way; let the poor always be treated fairly.

English Standard Version
May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice!

Berean Study Bible
May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.

New American Standard Bible
May he judge Your people with righteousness And Your afflicted with justice.

NASB 1995
May he judge Your people with righteousness And Your afflicted with justice.

NASB 1977
May he judge Thy people with righteousness, And Thine afflicted with justice.

Amplified Bible
May he judge Your people with righteousness, And Your afflicted with justice.

Christian Standard Bible
He will judge your people with righteousness and your afflicted ones with justice.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He will judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted ones with justice.

Contemporary English Version
Let him be honest and fair with all your people, especially the poor.

Good News Translation
so that he will rule over your people with justice and govern the oppressed with righteousness.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
so that he may judge your people with righteousness and your oppressed [people] with justice.

International Standard Version
May he rule your people with right decisions and your oppressed ones with justice.

NET Bible
Then he will judge your people fairly, and your oppressed ones equitably.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

New King James Version
He will judge Your people with righteousness, And Your poor with justice.

King James 2000 Bible
He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

New Heart English Bible
He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

World English Bible
He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

American King James Version
He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with judgment.

American Standard Version
He will judge thy people with righteousness, And thy poor with justice.

A Faithful Version
That he may judge Your people in righteousness and Your poor with justice.

Darby Bible Translation
He will judge thy people with righteousness, and thine afflicted with judgment.

English Revised Version
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

Webster's Bible Translation
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Then shal he iudge thy people in righteousnesse, and thy poore with equitie.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Then he wyll iudge thy people accordyng vnto iustice: and thy afflicted accordyng to equitie.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
That he maye gouerne thy people acordinge vnto right, and defende thy poore.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
He judges Your people with righteousness, "" And Your poor with judgment.

Young's Literal Translation
He judgeth Thy people with righteousness, And Thy poor with judgment.

Smith's Literal Translation
He shall judge thy people in justice, and thy poor in judgment.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king’s son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
That he shall judge your people in righteousness and your poor ones in judgment.

Lamsa Bible
That he may judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with justice.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
That he may judge Thy people with righteousness, And Thy poor with justice.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
that he may judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
















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