Psalm 37:6
New International Version
He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun.

New Living Translation
He will make your innocence radiate like the dawn, and the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun.

English Standard Version
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.

Berean Standard Bible
He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.

King James Bible
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

New King James Version
He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, And your justice as the noonday.

New American Standard Bible
He will bring out your righteousness as the light, And your judgment as the noonday.

NASB 1995
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light And your judgment as the noonday.

NASB 1977
And He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, And your judgment as the noonday.

Legacy Standard Bible
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light And your judgment as the noonday.

Amplified Bible
He will make your righteousness [your pursuit of right standing with God] like the light, And your judgment like [the shining of] the noonday [sun].

Christian Standard Bible
making your righteousness shine like the dawn, your justice like the noonday.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
making your righteousness shine like the dawn, your justice like the noonday.

American Standard Version
And he will make thy righteousness to go forth as the light, And thy justice as the noonday.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he will bring forth your righteousness like a light and your judgments like the noon.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noon-day.

Contemporary English Version
Then it will be as clear as the noonday sun that you were right.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

English Revised Version
Add he shall make thy righteousness to go forth as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He will make your righteousness shine like a light, your just cause like the noonday sun.

Good News Translation
he will make your righteousness shine like the noonday sun.

International Standard Version
He will bring forth your righteousness as a light, and your justice as the noonday sun.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And He will make thy righteousness to go forth as the light, And thy right as the noonday.

Literal Standard Version
And has brought out your righteousness as light, | And your judgment as noon-day.

Majority Standard Bible
He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.

New American Bible
And make your righteousness shine like the dawn, your justice like noonday.

NET Bible
He will vindicate you in broad daylight, and publicly defend your just cause.

New Revised Standard Version
He will make your vindication shine like the light, and the justice of your cause like the noonday.

New Heart English Bible
And he will make your righteousness go forth as the light, and your justice as the noonday.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he will bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noon-day.

World English Bible
he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

Young's Literal Translation
And hath brought out as light thy righteousness, And thy judgment as noon-day.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Do Not Envy Those who Do Wrong
5Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it. 6He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun. 7Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.…

Cross References
Job 11:17
Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

Psalm 97:11
Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.

Isaiah 58:8
Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 58:10
and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.

Jeremiah 51:10
"The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished."

Micah 7:9
Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.


Treasury of Scripture

And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noonday.

he shall

Psalm 31:20
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

Isaiah 54:17
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

Micah 7:8,9
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me…

light

Job 11:17
And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

Malachi 3:18
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

Matthew 13:43
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

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Psalm 37
1. David persuades to patience and confidence in God,
12. by the different estate of the godly and the wicked














(6) The light.--The image is from an Eastern dawn and the progress of the sun to its meridian glory. (Comp. Job 11:17; Isaiah 58:10.)

Verse 6. - And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. If the prosperity of the wicked frets thee, because it seems to obscure thy righteousness, since while he appears to bask in the sunshine of God's favour, thy life is possibly overshadowed by clouds and darkness, be sure that, in the end, this seeming injustice will be remedied. God will not frown on thee always; one day he will turn on thee the light of his countenance, and make thy righteousness to shine forth like the sun in its noonday splendour.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He will bring forth
וְהוֹצִ֣יא (wə·hō·w·ṣî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

your righteousness
צִדְקֶ֑ךָ (ṣiḏ·qe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6664: The right, equity, prosperity

like the dawn,
כָא֣וֹר (ḵā·’ō·wr)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 216: Illumination, luminary

your justice
וּ֝מִשְׁפָּטֶ֗ךָ (ū·miš·pā·ṭe·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

like the noonday sun.
כַּֽצָּהֳרָֽיִם׃ (kaṣ·ṣā·ho·rā·yim)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6672: A light, double light, noon


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