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Psalms 119:75

I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

KJV

I know, O Jehovah, that thy judgments are righteous, And that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.

ASV

יָדַ֣עְתִּי יְ֭הוָה כִּי צֶ֣דֶק מִשְׁפָּטֶ֑י/ךָ וֶ֝/אֱמוּנָ֗ה עִנִּיתָֽ/נִי

Hebrew

I have known, O Jehovah, That righteous are Thy judgments, And in faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me.

YLT

LORD, I know that your judgements are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֱמוּנָ֑ה
'mvnh
noun · 49×
וֹ
v
verb · 83×
י
y
noun · 422×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
צֶ֑דֶק
tsdq
noun · 116×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 16:12 — Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
  • 1Pet 1:6 — Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
  • Dan 4:37 — Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
  • Deut 7:9 — Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
  • Deut 32:4 — He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
  • Eph 6:1 — Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
  • Gen 18:25 — That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do rig
  • Heb 12:5 — And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
  • Heb 12:6 — For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
  • Heb 12:10 — For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
  • Hos 14:9 — Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
  • Jas 1:12 — Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
  • Job 33:23 — If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
  • Job 34:23 — For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
  • Lam 1:18 — The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
  • Ps 25:10 — All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
  • Ps 25:10 — All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
  • Ps 33:4 — For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.
  • Ps 89:30 — If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
  • Ps 119:7 — I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
  • Ps 119:62 — At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
  • Ps 119:62 — At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
  • Ps 119:67 — Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
  • Ps 119:128 — Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
  • Ps 119:160 — Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
  • Ps 119:160 — Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
  • Rev 3:19 — As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
  • Rom 3:4 — God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.