Parallel Verses

Amplified


The Lord executes righteousness
And justice for all the oppressed.

New American Standard Bible

The Lord performs righteous deeds
And judgments for all who are oppressed.

King James Version

The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

Holman Bible

The Lord executes acts of righteousness
and justice for all the oppressed.

International Standard Version

The LORD continuously does what is right, executing justice for all who are being oppressed.

A Conservative Version

LORD executes righteous acts, and judgments for all who are oppressed.

American Standard Version

Jehovah executeth righteous acts, And judgments for all that are oppressed.

Bible in Basic English

The Lord gives decisions in righteousness for all who are in trouble.

Darby Translation

Jehovah executeth righteousness and justice for all that are oppressed.

Julia Smith Translation

Jehovah did justices and judgments to all being oppressed.

King James 2000

The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all that are oppressed.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Yahweh does deeds of justice and judgments for all [who] are oppressed,

Modern King James verseion

Jehovah works righteousness and judgment for all who are pressed down.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment, for all them that are oppressed with wrong.

NET Bible

The Lord does what is fair, and executes justice for all the oppressed.

New Heart English Bible

The LORD executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

The Emphasized Bible

Yahweh is one, who executeth righteousness, Yea vindication for all the oppressed.

Webster

The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

World English Bible

Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

Youngs Literal Translation

Jehovah is doing righteousness and judgments For all the oppressed.

References

American

Context Readings

The Forgiving God

5
Who satisfies your years with good things,
So that your youth is renewed like the [soaring] eagle.
6 
The Lord executes righteousness
And justice for all the oppressed.
7
He made known His ways [of righteousness and justice] to Moses,
His acts to the children of Israel.


Cross References

Psalm 146:7


Who executes justice for the oppressed,
Who gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets free the prisoners.

Psalm 12:5


“Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,
Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”

Deuteronomy 24:14-15

“You shall not take advantage of a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether [he is] one of your countrymen or one of the strangers (resident aliens, foreigners) who is in your land inside your cities.

Job 27:13-23


“This [which I am about to explain] is the portion of a wicked man from God,
And the inheritance which tyrants and oppressors receive from the Almighty:

Psalm 9:9


The Lord also will be a refuge and a stronghold for the oppressed,
A refuge in times of trouble;

Psalm 10:14-18


You have seen it, for You have noted mischief and vexation (irritation) to take it into Your hand.
The unfortunate commits himself to You;
You are the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 72:4


May he bring justice to the poor among the people,
Save the children of the needy
And crush the oppressor,

Psalm 72:12


For he will rescue the needy when he cries for help,
The afflicted and abused also, and him who has no helper.

Psalm 109:31


For He will stand at the right hand of the needy,
To save him from those who judge his soul.

Proverbs 14:31


He who oppresses the poor taunts and insults his Maker,
But he who is kind and merciful and gracious to the needy honors Him.

Proverbs 22:22-23


Do not rob the poor because he is poor [and defenseless],
Nor crush the afflicted [by legal proceedings] at the gate [where the city court is held],

Proverbs 23:10


Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property]
And do not go into the fields of the fatherless [to take what is theirs],

Isaiah 14:4-32

that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say,

“How the oppressor has ceased [his insolence],
And how the fury has ceased!

Isaiah 58:6-7


“[Rather] is this not the fast which I choose,
To undo the bonds of wickedness,
To tear to pieces the ropes of the yoke,
To let the oppressed go free
And break apart every [enslaving] yoke?

Jeremiah 7:6-15

if you do not oppress the transient and the foreigner, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood [by oppression and by unjust judicial murders] in Jerusalem, nor follow after other gods to your own ruin,

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have treated father and mother lightly. They have oppressed the stranger among you; and in your presence they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Ezekiel 22:12-14

In you they have accepted bribes to shed blood; you have taken [forbidden] interest and [a percentage of] profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression and extortion, and you have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.

Micah 2:1-3

Woe (judgment is coming) to those who devise wickedness
And plot evil on their beds!
When morning comes, they practice evil
Because it is in the power of their hands.

Micah 3:2-4


“You who hate good and love evil,
Who tear the skin off my people
And their flesh from their bones;

James 2:6

But you [in contrast] have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress and exploit you, and personally drag you into the courts of law?

James 5:1-6

Come [quickly] now, you rich [who lack true faith and hoard and misuse your resources], weep and howl over the miseries [the woes, the judgments] that are coming upon you.

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