1 Samuel 24:15 {16}
Good News Translation
The LORD will judge, and he will decide which one of us is wrong. May he look into the matter, defend me, and save me from you."

New Revised Standard Version
May the LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you. May he see to it, and plead my cause, and vindicate me against you.”

Contemporary English Version
I pray that the LORD will help me escape and show that I am in the right.

New American Bible
The LORD will be the judge to decide between us. May the LORD see this, defend my cause, and give me justice against you!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be the Lord judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and judge my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Be the Lord judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and judge my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.

be judge

1 Samuel 24:12 The Lord judge between me and thee and the Lord revenge me of thee: but my hand shall not be upon thee.

2 Chronicles 24:22 And king Joas did not remember the kindness that Joiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said: The Lord see, and require it.

Micah 1:2 The word of the Lord, that came to Micah, the Morasthite, in the days of Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda: which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

plead

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

Psalm 43:1 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.

Psalm 119:154 Judge my judgment and redeem me: quicken thou me for thy word's sake.

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.

deliver [heb] judge

1 Samuel 26:4 He sent spies, and learned that he was most certainly come thither.

Context
David Spares Saul
14After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea. 15Be the Lord judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and judge my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.
Cross References
Judges 11:27
Therefore I do not trespass against thee, but thou wrongest me by declaring an unjust war against me. The Lord be judge, and decide this day, between Israel and the children of Ammon.

1 Samuel 24:12
The Lord judge between me and thee and the Lord revenge me of thee: but my hand shall not be upon thee.

1 Samuel 25:39
And when David had heard that Nabal was dead, he said: Blessed be the Lord, who hath judged the cause of my reproach, at the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil, and the Lord hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his head. Then David sent and treated with Abigail, that he might take her to himself for a wife.

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

Psalm 43:1
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.

Psalm 119:154
Judge my judgment and redeem me: quicken thou me for thy word's sake.

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.

1 Samuel 24:14
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