Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

For God is judge: he will humble this, and this he will lift up.

New American Standard Bible

But God is the Judge;
He puts down one and exalts another.

King James Version

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

Holman Bible

for God is the Judge:
He brings down one and exalts another.

International Standard Version

since God is the judge. This one he will debase or that one he will exalt.

A Conservative Version

But God is the judge. He put one down, and lifts another up.

American Standard Version

But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.

Amplified


But God is the Judge;
He puts down one and lifts up another.

Bible in Basic English

But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.

Darby Translation

For God is the judge; he putteth down one and exalteth another.

King James 2000

But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets up another.

Lexham Expanded Bible

rather God [is the] judge; one he brings low, and another he lifts up.

Modern King James verseion

But God is the judge; He puts down one and sets up another.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And why? God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

NET Bible

For God is the judge! He brings one down and exalts another.

New Heart English Bible

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

The Emphasized Bible

For, God himself, is about to judge, One, he will cast down, Another, he will lift up;

Webster

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

World English Bible

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

Youngs Literal Translation

But God is judge, This He maketh low -- and this He lifteth up.

Verse Info

Context Readings

God Judges The Wicked

6 For not from the going forth and from the west, and not from the desert the lifting up. 7 For God is judge: he will humble this, and this he will lift up. 8 For a cup in the hand of Jehovah, and the wine red, being full of mixed wine; and he will pour out from this: but its lees all the unjust of the earth shall suck out, they shall drink.

Cross References

Psalm 50:6

And the heavens shall announce his justice: for God himself the judge. Silence.

1 Samuel 2:7-8

Jehovah dispossessing, and enriching: making low, but lifting up.

1 Samuel 15:23

For the sin of divination, rebellion; and deceit, and the family gods of stubbornness. Because thou didst reject the word of Jehovah, and he will reject thee from being king.

1 Samuel 15:28

And Samuel will say to him, Jehovah rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and gave it to thy neighbor being good above thee.

1 Samuel 16:1

And Jehovah will say to Samuel, How long mournest thou for Saul, and I rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill thy horn with oil, and go; I will send thee to Jesse of the House of Bread, for I saw among his sons a king to me.

2 Samuel 3:17-18

And a word of Abner was with the old men of Israel, saying, Also yesterday also the third day ye were seeking David for king over you.

2 Samuel 5:2

Also yesterday, also the third day, in Saul being king over us, thou wert bringing out and bringing in Israel And Jehovah will say to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be for leader over Israel.

2 Samuel 6:21

And David will say to Michal, Before Jehovah who chose in me above thy father and above all his house, to appoint me leader over the people of Jehovah, over Israel: and I played before Jehovah.

Psalm 58:11

And man shall say, Truly, fruit to the just one: truly there is a God judging in the earth.

Psalm 113:7-8

Raising up the poor from the dust, he will lift up the needy from the dunghill.

Psalm 147:6

Jehovah setting up again the poor, and humbling the unjust even to the earth.

Jeremiah 27:4-8

And command them to say to their lords, Thus said Jehovah of armies God of Israel: Thus shall ye say to your lords:

Daniel 2:21-22

And he changes the times and the seasons; removing kings and setting up kings; giving wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those knowing understanding.

Daniel 2:37

Thou, O king, a king of kings: for the God of the heavens gave to thee a kingdom strong and powerful, and splendid.

Daniel 5:18

Thou, O king, God most high gave a kingdom and greatness and honor and splendor to Nebuchadnezzar thy father:

Luke 1:52

he has pulled down the powerful from thrones, and lifted up the

John 15:16

Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you.

Romans 11:15

For if their rejection the reconciliation of the world, what the reception, but life from the dead?

Galatians 1:15

And when God was contented, having separated me from my mother's womb, and having called me, by his grace,

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