Psalm 129:4 {128:4}
Good News Translation
But the LORD, the righteous one, has freed me from slavery."

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD always does right, and he has set me free from the ropes of those cruel people.

New American Bible
But the just LORD cut me free from the ropes of the wicked.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:

the Lord

Ezra 9:15 O Lord God of Israel, thou art just: for we remain yet to be saved as at this day. Behold we are before thee in our sin, for there can be no standing before thee in this matter.

Nehemiah 9:33 And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly.

Lamentations 1:18 Sade. The Lord is just, for I have provoked his mouth to wrath: hear, I pray you, all ye people, and see my sorrow: my virgins, and my young men are gone into captivity.

Lamentations 3:22 Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.

Daniel 9:7 To thee, O Lord, justice: but to us confusion of face, as at this day to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, for their iniquities, by which they have sinned against thee.

cut asunder

Psalm 124:6,7 Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us to be a prey to their teeth. . . .

Psalm 140:5-11 The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside. . . .

Context
The Cords of the Wicked
3The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity. 4The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion.…
Cross References
Exodus 9:27
And Pharao sent and called Moses and Aaron, saying to them: I have sinned this time also, the Lord is just: I and my people, are wicked.

Psalm 119:137
Thou art just, O Lord: and thy judgment is right.

Psalm 129:3
The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity.

Psalm 140:5
The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.

Jeremiah 12:1
Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly?

Psalm 129:3
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