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Psalms 94:6

The stranger and outcastJustice

4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

5 They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
KJV
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
WEB
They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
ASV
They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.
DARBY
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless,
BLB
The widow and the foreigner they kill, and the fatherless they murder.
ÅB
Enken og den fremmede slår de ihjel, og farløse myrder de.
OTB
De tar livet av enken og den fremmede,
Og dreper de farløse.
B1930
Enken og den fremmede slår de ihjel, og farløse myrder de.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Isaiah 10:2

    To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

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  • Ezekiel 22:7

    In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

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  • Jeremiah 7:6

    If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

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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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  • Isaiah 13:15–18

    Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

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  • Jeremiah 22:3

    Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

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