The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down. Treasury of Scripture preserveth Psalm 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. Deuteronomy 10:18,19 He does execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and raiment... Deuteronomy 16:11 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant... Proverbs 15:25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow. Jeremiah 49:11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me. Hosea 14:3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride on horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, You are our gods... 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... James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction... the way Psalm 18:26 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the fraudulent you will show yourself devious. Psalm 83:13-17 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind... Psalm 145:20 The LORD preserves all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. Psalm 147:6 The LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground. 2 Samuel 15:31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray you... 2 Samuel 17:23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got him home to his house, to his city... Esther 5:14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends to him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high... Esther 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified. Esther 9:25 But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews... Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. Job 5:12-14 He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise... 1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness.
Context Praise the Lord, My Soul
1Praise you the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. 2While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises to my God while I have any being. 3Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. 5Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: 6Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keeps truth for ever: 7Which executes judgment for the oppressed: which gives food to the hungry. The LORD looses the prisoners: 8The LORD opens the eyes of the blind: the LORD raises them that are bowed down: the LORD loves the righteous: 9The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down. 10The LORD shall reign for ever, even your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise you the LORD. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.
Darby Bible Translation
Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert.
King James Bible
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
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.
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