New Revised Standard Version
Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from those who are deceitful and unjust deliver me!

Contemporary English Version
Show that I am right, God! Defend me against everyone who doesn't know you; rescue me from each of those deceitful liars.

New American Bible
Grant me justice, O God; defend me from a faithless people; from the deceitful and unjust rescue me. [2] You, O God, are my strength. Why then do you spurn me? Why must I go about mourning, with the enemy oppressing me?

Douay-Rheims Bible
A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.

A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.

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2983 B.C.

1021 (Title.) This Psalm is evidently a continuation of the preceding, and had the same author; and they are written as one in forty-six MSS. The sameness of subject, similarity of composition, and return of the same burden in both, are sufficient evidence of this opinion

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Psalm 7:8 The Lord judgeth the people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my justice, and according to my innocence in me.

Psalm 26:1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my innocence: and I have put my trust in the Lord, and shall not be weakened.

Psalm 35:24 Judge me, O Lord my God according to thy justice, and let them not rejoice over me.

Psalm 75:7 For God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up:

1 Corinthians 4:4 For I am not conscious to myself of anything. Yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

1 Peter 2:23 Who, when he was reviled, did not revile: when he suffered, he threatened not, but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly.

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Psalm 35:1 For David himself. Judge thou, O Lord, them that wrong me: overthrow them that fight against me.

1 Samuel 24:15 Be the Lord judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and judge my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.

Proverbs 22:23 Because the Lord will judge his cause: and will afflict them that have afflicted his soul.

Proverbs 23:11 For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.

Micah 7:9 I will bear the wrath of the Lord, because I have sinned against him: until he judge my cause, and execute judgement for me: he will bring me forth into the light, I shall behold his justice.

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Psalm 71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, and out of the hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust.

2 Samuel 15:31 And it was told David that Achitophel also was in the conspiracy with Absalom, and David said: Infatuate, O Lord, I beseech thee, the counsel of Achitophel.

2 Samuel 16:20-23 And Absalom said to Achitophel: Consult what we are to do. . . .

2 Samuel 17:1-4 And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose me twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night. . . .