Psalm 99:4 {98:4}
Good News Translation
Mighty king, you love what is right; you have established justice in Israel; you have brought righteousness and fairness.

New Revised Standard Version
Mighty King, lover of justice, you have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Contemporary English Version
You are our mighty King, a lover of fairness, who sees that justice is done everywhere in Israel.

New American Bible
O mighty king, lover of justice, you have established fairness; you have created just rule in Jacob.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king's honour loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared directions: thou hast done judgment and justice in Jacob.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the king's honour loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared directions: thou hast done judgment and justice in Jacob.

strength

Psalm 45:6,7 Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of uprightness. . . .

Psalm 72:1,2 A psalm on Solomon. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:3,4 Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God. . . .

2 Samuel 23:3,4 The God of Israel said to me, the strong one of Israel spoke, the ruler of men, the just ruler in the fear of God. . . .

Job 36:5-7 God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is mighty. . . .

Job 37:23 We cannot find him worthily: he is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.

Isaiah 11:3-5 And he shall be filled with the spirit of the fear of the Lord, He shall not judge according to the sight of the eyes, nor reprove according to the hearing of the ears. . . .

Jeremiah 23:5 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up to David a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise: and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

Revelation 19:11,16 And I saw heaven opened: and behold a white horse. And he that sat upon him was called faithful and true: and with justice doth he judge and fight. . . .

thou dost

Isaiah 9:7 His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to establish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

Isaiah 42:4 He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the earth, and the islands shall wait for his law.

Isaiah 61:11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the nations.

executest

Deuteronomy 10:18 He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.

Jude 1:15 To execute judgment upon all and to reprove all the ungodly for all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly: and for all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God.

Context
The LORD Reigns
3Let them give praise to thy great name: for it is terrible and holy: 4And the king's honour loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared directions: thou hast done judgment and justice in Jacob.5Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore his footstool, for it is holy.…
Cross References
Psalm 11:7
He shall rain snares upon sinners: fire and brimstone, and storms of winds, shall be the portion of their cup. [8] For the Lord is just, and hath loved justice: his countenance hath beheld righteousness.

Psalm 17:2
Let my judgment come forth from thy countenance: let thy eyes behold the things that are equitable.

Psalm 33:5
He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.

Psalm 98:9
At the presence of the Lord: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with equity.

Psalm 103:6
The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that suffer wrong.

Psalm 146:7
Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered:

Jeremiah 23:5
Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up to David a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise: and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

Psalm 99:3
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