Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

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

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.

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 ye to God, Make music of his Name, - Lift up (a song), to him that rideth through the waste plains, - Since Yah is his name, exult ye before him. 5 The father of the fatherless, And the advocate of widows, Is God, in his holy habitation. 6 God, is he that causeth the solitary to dwell in a home, That bringeth out prisoners into prosperity, But, the rebellious, have made their habitation in a sunburnt land.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 10:18

executing the vindication of the orphan and the widow, - and loving sojourner, giving him food and raiment.

Psalm 10:14

Thou hast seen! For, thou, mischief and misery, dost discern, to requite with thine own hand, Unto thee, doth, the unfortunate one, give himself up, To the fatherless, thou thyself, hast become a helper.

Psalm 146:9

Yahweh, who preserveth sojourners, The fatherless and widows, he relieveth, - but, the way of the lawless, he overturneth.

Deuteronomy 26:15

Look thou down out of thy holy habitation out of the heavens and bless thy people Israel, and the soil which thou hast given unto us, - as thou didst swear unto our fathers, a and flowing with milk and honey.

2 Chronicles 6:2

But, I, have built a house as a home for thee, - A settled place for thee to abide in, for ages.

2 Chronicles 30:27

Then rose up the priests the Levites, and blessed the people, and there was a hearkening unto their voice, - and their prayer entered into his holy dwelling-place, even into the heavens.

Job 29:12-13

Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;

Job 31:16-17

If I withheld - from pleasure - the poor, or, the eyes of the widow, I dimmed;

Psalm 10:18

To vindicate the fatherless and the crushed, A man of the earth, shall, no further, cause terror!

Psalm 33:14

Out of his settled place of abode, hath he fixed his gaze on all the inhabitants of the earth:

Psalm 72:2

May he judge, Thy people with righteousness; And thine oppressed ones with justice;

Psalm 72:4

May he, Vindicate the oppressed of the people, Bring deliverance to the children of the needy, and, Crush the oppressor.

Psalm 82:3-4

Vindicate the weak and the fatherless, The oppressed and the poor, see righted;

Isaiah 1:23

Thy rulers, are unruly, and companions of thieves, Every one of the people, loveth a bribe, and runneth after rewards, - The fatherless, they do not vindicate, And, the plea of the widow, reacheth them not.

Isaiah 57:15

For, thus, saith he that is high and lifted up - Inhabiting futurity, And, holy, is his name: A high and holy place, will I inhabit, Also with the crushed and lowly in spirit, To revive the spirit of the lowly, and To revive the heart of them who are crushed; -

Isaiah 66:1

Thus, saith Yahweh, The, heavens, are my throne, and The earth, is my footstool: Where then is the house which ye can build me? Or where is my place of rest?

Jeremiah 5:28

They have waxed fat, they shine Yea they have overpassed the records of wickedness. The right, have they not determined, the right of the fatherless that they might prosper, - Yea justice to the helpless, have they not decreed.

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.

Luke 18:2-7

saying - A certain judge, there was in a certain city, - having, for God, no reverence, and, for man, no respect.

Acts 7:48-49

Although indeed, the Most High, not in hand-made places, dwelleth; just as, the prophet, saith -

Ephesians 5:1

Become ye, therefore, imitators of God, as children beloved,

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