PSALM 35:23

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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“Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.”

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Psalm 35:23 Translation & Meaning

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Stir up thyself, הָעִ֣ירָה To wake (literally or figuratively) Stir up thyself
and awake וְ֭הָקִיצָה To awake (literally or figuratively) awake
to my judgment, לְמִשְׁפָּטִ֑י Properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style judgment
even (No Hebrew definition. English implied.)
unto my cause, לְרִיבִֽי׃ A contest (personal or legal) cause
my God אֱלֹהַ֖י Gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative God
and my Lord. וַֽאדֹנָ֣י The Lord (used as a proper name of God only) Lord

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  • 21  Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

  • 22  This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

  • 23  Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

  • 24  Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

  • 25  Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.



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