Then hear from heaven and act. Judge between your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing down on their heads what they have done, and vindicating the innocent by treating them in accordance with their innocence.
NIV
Then hear in heaven and do and judge Your servants, condemning the wicked by bringing his guilt upon his own head and justifying the [uncompromisingly] righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness (his uprightness, right standing with God).
AMP
Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
KJV
He does not take his eyes off the righteous; he enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.
NIV
He withdraws not His eyes from the righteous (the upright in right standing with God); but He sets them forever with kings upon the throne, and they are exalted.
AMP
He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
KJV
If the righteous turn from their righteousness and do evil, they will die for it.
NIV
When the righteous turns back from his [uncompromising] righteousness and commits perverseness and iniquity, he shall even die in and because of it.
AMP
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
KJV
May they be blotted out of the book of life and not be listed with the righteous.
NIV
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and the book of life and not be enrolled among the [uncompromisingly] righteous (those upright and in right standing with God). [Rev. 3:4, 5; 20:12, 15; 21:27.]AMP
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
KJV
Rejoice in the LORD and be glad, you righteous; sing, all you who are upright in heart!
NIV
Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you [uncompromisingly] righteous [you who are upright and in right standing with Him]; shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
AMP
Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
KJV
When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
NIV
When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous (the upright, in right standing with God), but to the evildoers it is dismay, calamity, and ruin.
AMP
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
KJV
For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them.
NIV
Yet they seek, inquire for, and require Me daily and delight [externally] to know My ways, as [if they were in reality] a nation that did righteousness and forsook not the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me righteous judgments, they delight to draw near to God [in visible ways].
AMP
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
KJV
