Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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

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.

Amplified


The Lord executes righteousness
And justice for all the oppressed.

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

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Context Readings

The Forgiving God

5 He makes your mouth full of good things, so that your strength is made new again like the eagle's. 6 The Lord gives decisions in righteousness for all who are in trouble. 7 He gave knowledge of his way to Moses, and made his acts clear to the children of Israel.

Cross References

Psalm 146:7

Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;

Psalm 12:5

Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

Deuteronomy 24:14-15

Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

Job 27:13-23

This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all.

Psalm 9:9

The Lord will be a high tower for those who are crushed down, a high tower in times of trouble;

Psalm 10:14-18

You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

Psalm 72:4

May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.

Psalm 72:12

For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.

Psalm 109:31

For he is ever at the right hand of the poor, to take him out of the hands of those who go after his soul.

Proverbs 14:31

He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.

Proverbs 22:22-23

Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

Proverbs 23:10

Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;

Isaiah 14:4-32

That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off;

Isaiah 58:6-7

Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

Jeremiah 7:6-15

If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

Ezekiel 22:12-14

In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

Micah 2:1-3

A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

Micah 3:2-4

You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;

James 2:6

But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?

James 5:1-6

Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

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