Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Father of the fatherless, and judge of the 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.

The Emphasized Bible

The father of the fatherless, And the advocate of 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.

References

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Fausets

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

God's Majestic Power

4 Sing ye to God -- praise His name, Raise up a highway for Him who is riding in deserts, In Jah is His name, and exult before Him. 5 Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, Is God in His holy habitation. 6 God -- causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only -- the refractory have inhabited a dry place.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 10:18

He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment.

Psalm 10:14

Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave it, Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

Psalm 146:9

Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

Deuteronomy 26:15

look from Thy holy habitation, from the heavens, and bless Thy people Israel, and the ground which Thou hast given to us, as Thou hast sworn to our fathers -- a land flowing with milk and honey.

2 Chronicles 6:2

and I -- I have built a house of habitation for Thee, and a fixed place for Thy dwelling to the ages.'

2 Chronicles 30:27

and the priests, the Levites, rise and bless the people, and their voice is heard, and their prayer cometh in to His holy habitation, to the heavens.

Job 29:12-13

For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.

Job 31:16-17

If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

Psalm 10:18

To judge the fatherless and bruised: He addeth no more to oppress -- man of the earth!

Psalm 33:14

From the fixed place of His dwelling, He looked unto all inhabitants of the earth;

Psalm 72:2

He judgeth Thy people with righteousness, And Thy poor with judgment.

Psalm 72:4

He judgeth the poor of the people, Giveth deliverance to the sons of the needy, And bruiseth the oppressor.

Psalm 82:3-4

Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy is His name: 'In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'

Isaiah 66:1

Thus said Jehovah: The heavens are My throne, And the earth My footstool, Where is this -- the house that ye build for Me? And where is this -- the place -- My rest?

Jeremiah 5:28

They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

Jeremiah 49:11

Leave thine orphans -- I do keep alive, And thy widows -- on Me trust ye,

Hosea 14:3

Asshur doth not save us, on a horse we ride not, Nor do we say any more, Our God, to the work of our hands, For in Thee find mercy doth the fatherless.'

Luke 18:2-7

saying, 'A certain judge was in a certain city -- God he is not fearing, and man he is not regarding --

Acts 7:48-49

'But the Most High in sanctuaries made with hands doth not dwell, according as the prophet saith:

Ephesians 5:1

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

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