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.
New American Standard Bible
He
But He
King James Version
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Holman Bible
and helps the fatherless and the widow,
but He frustrates the ways of the wicked.
International Standard Version
The LORD stands guard over the stranger; he supports both widows and orphans, but makes the path of the wicked slippery.
A Conservative Version
LORD preserves the sojourners. He upholds the fatherless and widow. But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
Amplified
The Lord protects the strangers;
He supports the fatherless and the widow;
But He makes crooked the way of the wicked.
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.
Darby Translation
Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert.
Julia Smith Translation
Jehovah watched the strangers he will restore the orphan and the widow, and he will overturn the way of the unjust
King James 2000
The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Yahweh protects [the] strangers. He helps up [the] orphan and [the] widow, but [the] way of [the] wicked he {thwarts}.
Modern King James verseion
Jehovah preserves the strangers; He relieves the orphan and widow, but the way of the wicked He turns upside down.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The LORD careth for the strangers; he defendeth the fatherless and widow. As for the way of the ungodly, he turneth it upside down.
NET Bible
The Lord protects those residing outside their native land; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.
New Heart English Bible
The LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
The Emphasized Bible
Yahweh, who preserveth sojourners, The fatherless and widows, he relieveth, - but, the way of the lawless, he overturneth.
Webster
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
World English Bible
Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
Youngs 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.
Themes
God » Sustaining providence » Preserving the faithful
God's Promises » Of preservation » Preserving the faithful
God's Promises » To the widow and fatherless » God's care for
Preservation » Sustaining providence » Preserving the faithful
Preservation » Who the lord preserves
divine Providence » Sustaining » Preserving the faithful
Strangers in israel » Under the care and protection of God
Interlinear
Shamar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 146:9
Prayers for Psalm 146:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To Yahweh For His Help
8 Jehovah openeth the eyes of the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous; 9 Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. 10 Jehovah will reign for ever, Thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye Jehovah.
Cross References
Psalm 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.
Psalm 147:6
Jehovah upholdeth the meek: He bringeth the wicked down to the ground.
Exodus 22:21-22
And a sojourner shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him: for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:18-19
He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the sojourner, in giving him food and raiment.
Deuteronomy 16:11
and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
2 Samuel 15:31
And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
2 Samuel 17:23
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home, unto his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
Esther 5:14
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
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 the matter came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Job 5:12-14
He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Psalm 18:26
With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.
Psalm 83:13-17
O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.
Psalm 145:20
Jehovah preserveth all them that love him; But all the wicked will he destroy.
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
Proverbs 15:25
Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.
Jeremiah 49:11
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria 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 findeth mercy.
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, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right , and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.