Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Yahweh protects [the] strangers. He helps up [the] orphan and [the] widow, but [the] way of [the] wicked he {thwarts}.
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.
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 Yahweh opens [the eyes of the] blind; Yahweh raises up [those] bowed down; Yahweh loves [the] righteous; 9 Yahweh protects [the] strangers. He helps up [the] orphan and [the] widow, but [the] way of [the] wicked he {thwarts}. 10 Yahweh will reign forever, Your God, O Zion, {throughout all generations}. Praise Yah.
Cross References
Psalm 68:5
A father to orphans and a judge for widows [is] God in his holy habitation.
Psalm 147:6
Yahweh helps the afflicted up; [he] brings [the] wicked down to [the] ground.
Exodus 22:21-22
" 'You will not mistreat an alien, and you will not oppress him, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:18-19
[And he] executes justice for the orphan and widow, and [he is] one who loves [the] alien, to give to them food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 16:11
And you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite that [is] in your {towns} and the alien and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst in the place that Yahweh your God will choose to let his name dwell there.
2 Samuel 15:31
Now David [was] told, "Ahithophel [was] among the conspirators with Absalom." Then David said, "Please frustrate the counsel of Ahithophel, O Yahweh."
2 Samuel 17:23
When Ahithophel saw that his advice [was] not followed, he saddled the donkey, and he set out and went up to his house in his city. {After he set his house in order}, he hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his ancestors.
Esther 5:14
And Zeresh his wife and all of his friends said to him, "Let them make a gallows fifty cubits high, and in the morning tell the king, "Let them hang Mordecai on it; then go with the king to the banquet happily." The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.
Esther 7:10
And they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the anger of the king was abated.
Esther 9:25
But when it came {to the attention of} the king, he {gave orders in writing} [that] his evil plot that he had devised against the Jews should return on his head, and they hung him and his sons on the gallows.
Job 5:12-14
[He] is frustrating [the] devices of [the] crafty, and their hands do not achieve success.
Psalm 18:26
To [the] pure you show yourself pure. but to [the] wicked you show yourself shrewd.
Psalm 83:13-17
O my God, make them like the tumbleweed, like the chaff before wind.
Psalm 145:20
Yahweh protects all those who love him, but all the wicked he will exterminate.
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked ones [is] like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
Proverbs 15:25
The house of the proud, Yahweh will tear [it] down, but he will maintain the {property line} of the widow.
Jeremiah 49:11
Leave your orphans. I will let [them] live. And your widows, let them trust in me."
Hosea 14:3
Assyria will not save us; we will not ride on horses, and we will say no more, "Our God," to the work of our hands because in you [the] fatherless child finds mercy.
Malachi 3:5
"Then I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers, and against those who swear {falsely}, and against the oppressors of [the] hired worker [with his] wages, [the] widow and [the] orphan, and {the abusers of} [the] alien, and [yet] do not fear me," says Yahweh of hosts.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is written, "The one who catches the wise in their craftiness,"
James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unstained by the world.