Psalms 143:2

What does Psalms 143:2 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 143:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Context

v.1Hear my prayer, O Jehovah; give ear to my supplications: In thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.

v.2This passage

v.3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 9:2

    Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

  • Job 15:14

    What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

  • Job 14:3

    And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?

  • 1 Kings 8:46

    If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not), and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive unto the land of the enemy, far off or near;

  • Psalms 130:3

    If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

  • Exodus 34:7

    keeping lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

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