Psalms 146:9

7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:

8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
KJV
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
WEB
The LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
ASV
Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
DARBY
Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert.
BLB
YHWH guards the sojourners; the fatherless and widow He sustains, and the way of the wicked He overturns.
ÅB
Herren bevarer de fremmede; farløse og enker holder han oppe, men de ugudeliges vei gjør han kroket.
OTB
Herren beskytter fremmede;
Han støtter farløse og enker,
Men Han forstyrrer de ondes planer.
B1930
Herren bevarer de fremmede; farløse og enker holder han oppe, men de ugudeliges vei gjør han kroket.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 68:5

    A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

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  • Deuteronomy 10:18–19

    He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

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  • Psalms 147:6

    The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.

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  • Exodus 22:21–22

    Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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  • Malachi 3:5

    And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

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  • Proverbs 15:25

    The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

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  • Jeremiah 49:11

    Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

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  • James 1:27

    Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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