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Psalm 140:13

Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The upright will dwell in your presence.

11An evil speaker won’t be established on the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
12I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
13Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The upright will dwell in your presence.
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Notice

“Surely” gives the closing lines a firm footing: after violence and affliction, the psalm looks toward thanksgiving and a life in God’s presence.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 54:6With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, LORD, for it is good.Both verses use the words “give thanks to your name,” directing gratitude to God himself.
Psalm 5:4For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can’t live with you.Psalm 140 says the upright will dwell in God’s presence; Psalm 5 says evil cannot live with him.
Psalm 16:11You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.God’s presence is central to both: the upright will dwell there, and fullness of joy is found there.
Psalm 11:7For the LORD is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.Both passages promise nearness to God for the upright, expressed as dwelling in his presence and seeing his face.
Isaiah 3:10Tell the righteous that it will be well with them, for they will eat the fruit of their deeds.Both speak with confidence about the righteous person’s future: thanksgiving and God’s presence in the psalm, well-being in Isaiah.
1 Thessalonians 4:17then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.Both passages look forward to being with the Lord, with Thessalonians stating that this will last forever.
John 17:24Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory which you have given me, for you loved me before the …Dwelling in God’s presence shares a thread with Jesus’ desire that those given to him be where he is.
Proverbs 11:20Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.Both connect upright conduct with God’s favor: the upright dwell in his presence, and those whose ways are blameless delight him.
Revelation 7:14–17I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering. They washed their robes and made them white in the Lamb’s …The connection is limited: the psalm names the righteous, while Revelation describes people whose robes were washed in the Lamb’s blood.
John 14:3If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.Both promise presence: the upright will dwell with God, and Jesus will receive his followers to be where he is.
Revelation 21:24–27The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.Both describe a hopeful future, though the supplied Revelation verse speaks of nations and light rather than dwelling in God’s presence.
Where this verse fits

Gratitude. injustice and anger. fear for the future.

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One step

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Encouragement

The psalm’s closing confidence does not erase the violence named before it. The righteous will give thanks to God; the upright will dwell in his presence.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).