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4:1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.†
Chpt 1-10 *

righteousness = morally correct behavior

4:5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.†
Chpt 1-10

5:8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.†
Chpt 1-10

7:8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.†
Chpt 1-10

7:17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.†
Chpt 1-10

9:8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.†
Chpt 1-10

11:7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.†
Chpt 11-20

15:2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.†
Chpt 11-20

17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.†
Chpt 11-20

18:20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.†
Chpt 11-20

18:24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.†
Chpt 11-20

22:31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.†
Chpt 21-30

23:3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.†
Chpt 21-30

24:5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.†
Chpt 21-30

31:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.†
Chpt 31-40

33:5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.†
Chpt 31-40

35:24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.†
Chpt 31-40

35:28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.†
Chpt 31-40

36:6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.†
Chpt 31-40

36:10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.†
Chpt 31-40

37:6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.†
Chpt 31-40

40:9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.†
Chpt 31-40

40:10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.†
Chpt 31-40

45:4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.†
Chpt 41-50

45:7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.†
Chpt 41-50

48:10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.†
Chpt 41-50

50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself.†
Chpt 41-50

51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.†
Chpt 51-60

51:19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.†
Chpt 51-60

52:3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness.†
Chpt 51-60

58:1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation?†
Chpt 51-60

65:5 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea: 65:6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power: 65:7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.†
Chpt 61-70

67:4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth.†
Chpt 61-70

righteously = in a morally correct manner

69:27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.†
Chpt 61-70

righteousness = morally correct behavior

71:2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.†
Chpt 71-80

71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.†
Chpt 71-80

unrighteous = morally wrong

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrighteous means not and reverses the meaning of righteous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.

71:15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.†
Chpt 71-80

righteousness = morally correct behavior

71:16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.†
Chpt 71-80

71:19 Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!†
Chpt 71-80

71:24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.†
Chpt 71-80

72:1 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.†
Chpt 71-80

72:2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.†
Chpt 71-80

72:3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.†
Chpt 71-80

85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.†
Chpt 81-90

85:11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.†
Chpt 81-90

85:13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.†
Chpt 81-90

and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?†
Chpt 81-90

89:16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.†
Chpt 81-90

92:14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; 92:15 To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.†
Chpt 91-100

unrighteousness = immoral behavior

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrighteousness means not and reverses the meaning of righteousness. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.

94:15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.†
Chpt 91-100

righteousness = morally correct behavior

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Definitions:

(1) (righteous as in: a righteous cause)
morally correct; or morally justified

or:

acting or feeling morally superior -- especially when it isn't true (this meaning is more typically seen as a compound word beginning with "self-")
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

Less commonly, righteous is used as a synonym for wonderful.