King James Version
Psalms 35:23 in the King James Version says “Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 35 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.”
Psalms 35:23 · KJV
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. Ah: Heb. Ah, ah, our soul
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“to my judgment”
H4941properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind
“my God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
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