Psalm 146:9 “The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow…”

Psalm 146:9

The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

The LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

American Standard Version

Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Geneva Bible 1599

The Lord keepeth the strangers: he relieueth the fatherlesse and widowe: but he ouerthroweth the way of the wicked.

Darby Translation

Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert.

Young's Literal Translation

Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

Bible in Basic English

The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.

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Cross references

“preserveth”

Psalm 68:5 Proverbs 15:25 Malachi 3:5 Jeremiah 49:11 James 1:27 Deuteronomy 16:11

Psalm 68:5 · BSB

A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.

Proverbs 15:25 · BSB

The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.

Malachi 3:5 · BSB

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their…

Jeremiah 49:11 · BSB

Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”

James 1:27 · BSB

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Deuteronomy 16:11 · BSB

and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the fore…

“the way”

Psalm 147:6 Psalm 83:13–17 Psalm 145:20 Proverbs 4:19 Psalm 18:26 2 Samuel 15:31

Psalm 147:6 · BSB

The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.

Psalm 83:13–17 · BSB

Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.

Psalm 145:20 · BSB

The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.

Proverbs 4:19 · BSB

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.

Psalm 18:26 · BSB

to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.

2 Samuel 15:31 · BSB

Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”

Also

Exodus 22:21–22

Exodus 22:21–22 · BSB

You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.

10The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Hallelujah!

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