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New King James Version

Psalms 146:7

Who executes justice for the oppressed, Who gives food to the hungry. The LORD gives freedom to the prisoners.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   God Continued...;   Poor;   Praise;   Prisoners;   The Topic Concordance - Freedom/liberty;   God;   Judges;   Oppression;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Poor, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hope;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Justice;   Prison, Prisoners;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Haggai;   Hallel;   Hallelujah;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Prisoners;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Haggai;   Hallelujah;   Vulgate;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bassani, Isaiah;   Shemoneh 'Esreh;  

Devotionals:

- Faith's Checkbook - Devotion for March 7;   Today's Word from Skip Moen - Devotion for January 12;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
executing justice for the exploitedand giving food to the hungry.The Lord frees prisoners.
Hebrew Names Version
Who executes justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners.
King James Version
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:
English Standard Version
who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;
New Century Version
He does what is fair for those who have been wronged. He gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free.
New English Translation
vindicates the oppressed, and gives food to the hungry. The Lord releases the imprisoned.
Amplified Bible
Who executes justice for the oppressed, Who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets free the prisoners.
New American Standard Bible
Who executes justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners.
World English Bible
Who executes justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Which executeth iustice for the oppressed: which giueth bread to the hungry: the Lord loseth the prisoners.
Legacy Standard Bible
Who does justice for the oppressed;Who gives food to the hungry.Yahweh sets the prisoners free.
Berean Standard Bible
executing justice for the oppressed, giving food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
Contemporary English Version
He gives justice to the poor and food to the hungry. The Lord sets prisoners free
Complete Jewish Bible
He secures justice for the oppressed, he gives food to the hungry. Adonai sets prisoners free,
Darby Translation
Who executeth judgment for the oppressed, who giveth bread to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;
Easy-to-Read Version
He does what is right for those who have been hurt. He gives food to the hungry. The Lord frees people locked up in prison.
George Lamsa Translation
Who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD releases the prisoners;
Good News Translation
he judges in favor of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets prisoners free
Lexham English Bible
who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food for the hungry. Yahweh sets prisoners free;
Literal Translation
who executes judgment for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry; Jehovah sets free the prisoners;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE lowseth men out of preson, the LORDE geueth sight to the blynde.
American Standard Version
Who executeth justice for the oppressed; Who giveth food to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;
Bible in Basic English
Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who executeth justice for the oppressed; who giveth bread to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners;
King James Version (1611)
Which executeth iudgement for the oppressed, which giueth food to the hungry: the Lord looseth the prisoners.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
God looseth those that be bounde: God geueth syght to the blynde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
who executes judgment for the wronged: who gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the fettered ones:
English Revised Version
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed; which giveth food to the hungry: the LORD looseth the prisoners;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Which kepith treuthe in to the world, makith dom to hem that suffren wrong; yyueth mete to hem that ben hungri. The Lord vnbyndith feterid men;
Update Bible Version
Who executes justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh looses the prisoners;
Webster's Bible Translation
Who executeth judgment for the oppressed: who giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
New Living Translation
He gives justice to the oppressed and food to the hungry. The Lord frees the prisoners.
New Life Bible
He helps those who have a bad power over them. He gives food to the hungry. And He sets those in prison free.
New Revised Standard
who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who executeth justice for the oppressed, who giveth food to the famishing, Yahweh, who liberateth prisoners;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(145-7) Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered:
Revised Standard Version
who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free;
Young's Literal Translation
Doing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Who executes justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free.

Contextual Overview

5 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the LORD his God, 6 Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that is in them; Who keeps truth forever, 7 Who executes justice for the oppressed, Who gives food to the hungry. The LORD gives freedom to the prisoners. 8 The LORD opens the eyes of the blind; The LORD raises those who are bowed down; The LORD loves the righteous. 9 The LORD watches over the strangers; He relieves the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked He turns upside down. 10 The LORD shall reign forever-- Your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

executeth: Psalms 9:16, Psalms 10:14, Psalms 10:15, Psalms 10:18, Psalms 12:5, Psalms 72:4, Psalms 103:6, Proverbs 22:22, Proverbs 22:23, Proverbs 23:10, Proverbs 23:11, Isaiah 9:4, Malachi 3:5

which giveth food: Psalms 107:9, Psalms 136:25, Psalms 145:15, Psalms 145:16, Jeremiah 31:14, Luke 1:53, Luke 9:17

looseth: Psalms 68:6, Psalms 105:17-20, Psalms 107:10, Psalms 107:14-16, Psalms 142:7, Isaiah 61:1, Zechariah 9:11, Zechariah 9:12, Luke 4:18, Acts 5:19, Acts 16:26

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:29 - to you Exodus 22:23 - I will surely Leviticus 25:10 - proclaim Ruth 1:6 - in giving Job 37:23 - excellent Psalms 69:33 - his prisoners Psalms 79:11 - according Psalms 102:20 - To hear Psalms 107:36 - there he Isaiah 42:7 - to bring Isaiah 49:9 - to the Jeremiah 9:24 - lovingkindness Acts 12:7 - And his Acts 12:17 - declared

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Which executeth judgment for the oppressed,.... All judgment being committed to Christ as Mediator, he executes it on the behalf of his oppressed ones, and breaks in pieces their oppressors; being oppressed with sin, and lying under the power of it, he condemned it in his flesh, wrought out a righteousness to justify from it, and redeemed them from all their iniquities; being oppressed by Satan, and led captive by him, he took them as a prey from the mighty, and led captivity captive; and, when oppressed by the world, he is on their side and takes their part, and thoroughly pleads their cause, and suffers no weapon formed against them to prosper; and will before long destroy antichrist and his followers, and bring down his judgments on them, so that men of the earth shall no more oppress; and especially at the last judgment, he, the righteous Judge, will render tribulation to them that have troubled his people, and set the crown of righteousness on their heads; see Psalms 10:18;

which giveth food to the hungry: in a literal sense he gave manna and quails to the hungry Israelites in the wilderness, fed five thousand with five loaves and two small fishes, and four thousand with seven loaves and a few fishes, when here on earth; and in a spiritual sense, to such as are in a starving and famishing condition, and hunger and thirst after righteousness, he gives himself, the bread of life, and his grace, the water of life; he gives them to eat of the hidden manna, and of the tree of life; he gives them his word, his Gospel, which is milk for babes and meat for strong men; he gives them his ordinances, which are a feast of fat things, and so he tills and satisfies their hungry souls;

the Lord looseth the prisoners: such as were bound by diseases and infirmities of body, he loosed in the days of his flesh here; and some that were held with the cords of death he raised from the dead,

Luke 13:11; and his people, who are in a spiritual sense prisoners of sin, Satan, and the law, being shut up and held under by them, he proclaims liberty to them, and the opening the prison to them that are bound; he opens the prison doors, and says to the prisoners, Go forth; he delivers them from the power of sin, the slavery of Satan, and the bondage of the law, and brings them into a state of liberty,

Isaiah 61:1; yea, all the prisoners in the grave he will loose at the last day; he has the key of hell and death, and will open those prisons and set them free; they shall come forth, some to the resurrection of life, and others to the resurrection of damnation.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Which executeth judgment for the oppressed - This is the third reason why the lot of those is a happy one who trust in God. It is because he has power to pronounce and execute a right judgment or sentence in regard to the oppressed and the wronged, and because it is characteristic of his nature that he does thus execute judgment. See the notes at Psalms 103:6 : “The Lord executeth right. eousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.”

Which giveth food to the hungry - See the notes at Psalms 107:9 : “For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.” This is the fourth reason why they who confide in God are happy. Compare Luke 1:53 : “He hath filled the hungry with good things.”

The Lord looseth the prisoners - This is the fifth reason why they who trust in the Lord are “happy.” Compare the notes at Psalms 68:6 : “He bringeth out those which are bound with chains.” See also the notes at Psalms 107:10 : “Being bound in affliction and iron.” Compare Job 36:8-9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 146:7. Which executeth judgment for the oppressed — For those who suffer by violence or calumny. This may refer to the Israelites, who suffered much by oppression from the Babylonians, and by calumny from the Samaritans, &c., who had prejudiced the king of Persia against them.

Giving food to the hungry. — No doubt he fed the poor captives by many displays of his peculiar providence.

The Lord looseth the prisoners — And as he has sustained you so long under your captivity, so will he bring you out of it.


 
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