Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

God in His holy dwelling is
a father of the fatherless
and a champion of widows.

International Standard Version

A father to orphans and an advocate for widows is God in his holy dwelling place.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


A father of the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.

Bible in Basic English

A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

A father of orphans and a judge of widows, God in his holy habitation.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

A father to orphans and a judge for widows [is] God in his holy habitation.

Modern King James verseion

In His holy dwelling God is the father of the fatherless, and the judge of the widows.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation.

NET Bible

He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy palace.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

The father of the fatherless, And the advocate of widows, Is God, in his holy habitation.

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, Is God in His holy habitation.

References

American

Fausets

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

God's Majestic Power

4 Sing unto God, sing psalms unto his name; extol him that rides upon the heavens by his name JAH and rejoice before him. 5 A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
6 God sets the solitary in families; he brings out those who are bound with chains, but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 10:18

he executes the rights of the fatherless and the widow and also loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.

Psalm 10:14

Thou hast seen it, for thou dost behold mischief and spite to requite it with thy hand: the poor commits himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 146:9

The LORD preserves the strangers; he raises up the fatherless and widow; but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

Deuteronomy 26:15

Look down from the habitation of thy holiness, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel and the land which thou hast given us, as thou didst sware unto our fathers, a land that flows with milk and honey.

2 Chronicles 6:2

I, therefore, have built a house of habitation for thee and a place for thy dwelling for ever.

2 Chronicles 30:27

Then the priests, the Levites, arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to the dwelling place of his sanctuary, unto heaven.

Job 29:12-13

because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless who had no one to help him.

Job 31:16-17

If I have disturbed the desire of the poor or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Psalm 10:18

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed that the man of the earth may no longer oppress.

Psalm 33:14

From the place of his habitation he looked upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

Psalm 72:2

He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment.

Psalm 72:4

He shall judge the poor of the people; he shall save the children of the destitute and shall break in pieces the violent.

Psalm 82:3-4

Do right concerning the poor and fatherless; do justice to the poor and destitute.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; every one loves bribes and follows after rewards; they do not hear the fatherless in judgment, neither does the cause of the widow come unto them.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus has said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is The Holy One; I dwell in the high place and in holiness and with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to cause the spirit of the humble to live and to cause the heart of the contrite ones to live.

Isaiah 66:1

Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where shall remain this house that ye built unto me? and where shall remain this place of my rest?

Jeremiah 5:28

They are become fat; they shine; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they did not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless; with all this they made themselves prosperous; and they did not judge the cause of the poor.

Jeremiah 49:11

Leave thy fatherless children; I will raise them; and thy widows shall trust in me.

Hosea 14:3

Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods, for in thee the fatherless finds mercy.

Luke 18:2-7

saying, There was in a city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man;

Acts 7:48-49

Howbeit the most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as saith the prophet,

Ephesians 5:1

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dear children

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