Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Yahweh, who preserveth sojourners, The fatherless and widows, he relieveth, - but, the way of the lawless, he overturneth.
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.
American Standard Version
Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth 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.
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 Yahweh, who opened the eyes of the blind, Yahweh, who raiseth the prostrate, Yahweh, who loveth the righteous; 9 Yahweh, who preserveth sojourners, The fatherless and widows, he relieveth, - but, the way of the lawless, he overturneth. 10 Yahweh, will reign, to times age-abiding, Thy God, O Zion, to generation after generation. Praise ye Yah!
Cross References
Psalm 68:5
The father of the fatherless, And the advocate of widows, Is God, in his holy habitation.
Psalm 147:6
Yahweh, relieveth the humbled! casting the lawless down to the earth.
Exodus 22:21-22
And, a sojourner, shalt thou not tread down neither shalt thou drive him away, - for sojourners, ye became in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:18-19
executing the vindication of the orphan and the widow, - and loving sojourner, giving him food and raiment.
Deuteronomy 16:11
So shalt thou rejoice before Yahweh thy God - thou, and thy son and thy daughter and thy servant and thy handmaid, and the Levite who is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless and the widow who are in thy midst, - in the place which Yahweh thy God shall choose, to make a habitation for his name there.
2 Samuel 15:31
And, unto David, it was told, saying, Ahithophel, is among the conspirators with Absolom. And David said, Turn to foolishness, I pray thee, the counsel of Ahithophel, O Yahweh.
2 Samuel 17:23
Now, when, Ahithophel, saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose and went unto his own house, unto his own city, and gave charge unto his household, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the grave of his father.
Esther 5:14
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let them make ready a gallows, of the height of fifty cubits, and, in the morning, speak thou unto the king, that they hang Mordecai thereon, then go with the king into the banquet joyfully. And the thing seemed good before Haman, and he made ready the gallows.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, - and, the wrath of the king, was appeased.
Esther 9:25
but, by Esther's going in before the king, he commanded by letter, that his wicked plot which he had plotted against the Jews, should return, upon his own head, - and that he and his sons should be hanged upon the gallows.
Job 5:12-14
Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;
Psalm 18:26
With the pure, thou didst show thyself pure, But, with the perverse, thou didst show thyself ready to contend.
Psalm 83:13-17
O my God, make them, As whirling dust , As chaff before a wind;
Psalm 145:20
Yahweh preserveth all who love him, but, all the lawless, will he destroy.
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the lawless, is like darkness, they know not, at what they stumble.
Proverbs 15:25
The house of proud men, will Yahweh tear down, but he will maintain the boundary of the widow.
Jeremiah 49:11
Leave thy fatherless children I, will preserve them alive, - And thy widows, In me, let them trust.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria, shall not save us, Upon horses, will we not ride, neither will we say any more - Our god! to the work of our own hands! For, in thee, shall the fatherless, find compassion.
Malachi 3:5
Therefore will I draw near unto you for judgment, and will become a swift witness against the mutterers of incantations, and against the adulterers, and against them that swear to a falsehood, - and against them who rob the hire of the hireling, the widow and the fatherless, and that drive away the sojourner, and do not revere me, saith Yahweh 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 knavery, -
James 1:27
Religious observance, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is, this - to be visiting orphans and widows in their affliction, unspotted, to keep, himself, from the world.