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Psalms 146:9
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The Lord protects resident aliensand helps the fatherless and the widow,but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
The LORD preserves the sojourners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
The Lord watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
The Lord protects the foreigners. He defends the orphans and widows, but he blocks the way of the wicked.
The Lord protects those residing outside their native land; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.
The LORD protects the strangers; He supports the fatherless and the widow; But He makes crooked the way of the wicked.
The LORD watches over strangers; He supports the fatherless and the widow, But He thwarts the way of the wicked.
Yahweh preserves the sojourners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
The Lord keepeth the strangers: he relieueth the fatherlesse & widowe: but he ouerthroweth the way of the wicked.
Yahweh keeps the sojourners;He helps up the orphan and the widow,But He bends the way of the wicked.
The LORD protects the sojourners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
and looks after strangers. He defends the rights of orphans and widows, but destroys the wicked.
Adonai watches over strangers, he sustains the fatherless and widows; but the way of the wicked he twists.
Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert.
The Lord protects strangers in our country. He cares for widows and orphans, but he destroys the wicked.
The LORD takes care of the poor; he feeds the fatherless and widows; but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
He protects the strangers who live in our land; he helps widows and orphans, but takes the wicked to their ruin.
Yahweh protects the strangers. He helps up the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he thwarts.
Jehovah watches over the strangers; He relieves the orphan and the widow, but He warps the way of the wicked.
The LORDE careth for the straungers, he defendeth ye fatherlesse and wyddowe: as for the waye of ye vngodly, he turneth it vpsyde downe.
Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
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.
The LORD preserveth the strangers; He upholdeth the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked He maketh crooked.
The Lord preserueth the strangers, he relieueth the fatherlesse and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth vpside downe.
God taketh strangers into his custodie, he releeueth the fatherlesse and the widdowe: as for the way of the vngodlye he turneth it vpsyde downe.
he will relieve the orphan and widow: but will utterly remove the way of sinners.
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he upholdeth the fatherless and widow; but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
The Lord kepith comelyngis, he schal take vp a modirles child, and widewe; and he schal distrie the weies of synners.
Yahweh preserves the sojourners; He upholds the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
The Lord protects the foreigners among us. He cares for the orphans and widows, but he frustrates the plans of the wicked.
The Lord keeps the strangers safe. He takes care of the children who have no father and the woman whose husband has died. But He destroys the way of the sinful.
The Lord watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
Yahweh, who preserveth sojourners, The fatherless and widows, he relieveth, - but, the way of the lawless, he overturneth.
(145-9) The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.
The LORD watches over the sojourners, he upholds the widow and the fatherless; but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.
The Lord protects the strangers; He supports the fatherless and the widow, But He thwarts the way of the wicked.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
preserveth: Psalms 68:5, Deuteronomy 10:18, Deuteronomy 10:19, Deuteronomy 16:11, Proverbs 15:25, Jeremiah 49:11, Hosea 14:3, Malachi 3:5, James 1:27
the way: Psalms 18:26, Psalms 83:13-17, Psalms 145:20, Psalms 147:6, 2 Samuel 15:31, 2 Samuel 17:23, Esther 5:14, Esther 7:10, Esther 9:25, Proverbs 4:19, Job 5:12-14, 1 Corinthians 3:19
Reciprocal: Psalms 1:1 - way Psalms 1:6 - way Psalms 10:14 - helper Proverbs 15:9 - The way Isaiah 24:1 - turneth it upside down Acts 9:41 - widows 1 Timothy 5:3 - widows
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The Lord preserveth the strangers,.... The life of them, as he did the daughter of: the Greek, a Syrophenician woman, and a Samaritan, by healing them of their diseases, Mark 7:26; and in a spiritual sense he preserves the lives and saves the souls of his people among the Gentiles, who are aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenant of promise; for these he laid down his life a ransom, and became the propitiation for their sins; to these he sends his Gospel, which is the power of God to salvation unto them;
he relieveth the fatherless and widow; in their distresses and troubles, who have no helper; a wonderful instance of his relieving a widow, in the most disconsolate circumstances, we have in raising the widow of Nain's son to life, and restoring him to his mother, Luke 7:12; in him "the fatherless", and all that in a spiritual sense are destitute of help in the creatures, and see they are so, "find mercy"; nor will he leave his people comfortless, or as orphans and fatherless ones, but will and does come and visit them, relieve and supply them with everything convenient for them; though his church here on earth may seem to be as a widow, he being in heaven at the right hand of God, yet he cares for her in the wilderness, and provides for her support, where she is nourished with the word and ordinances, and will be until he comes again; see Hosea 14:3;
but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down; so that they cannot find it; nor their hands perform their enterprise; their schemes and counsels are all confounded and blasted by him, and all their policy and power are not able to prevail against his church and people; see Psalms 1:6.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The Lord preserveth the strangers - He regards them with interest; he defends and guides them. This is the ninth reason why those who trust in the Lord are happy. The stranger - away from home and friends; with no one to feel an interest in him or sympathy for him; with the feeling that he is forsaken; with no one on whom he can call for sympathy in distress - may find in God one who will regard his condition; who will sympathize with him; who is able to protect and befriend him. Compare Exodus 12:49; Exodus 22:21; Exodus 23:9; Leviticus 19:33; Deuteronomy 1:16; Deuteronomy 10:18-19; Isaiah 56:3, Isaiah 56:6.
He relieveth the fatherless and widow - He is their friend. This is the tenth reason why those who put their trust in the Lord are happy. It is that God is the Friend of those who have no earthly protector. See the notes at Psalms 68:5 : “A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.”
But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down - He overturns their plans; defeats their schemes; makes their purposes accomplish what they did not intend they should accomplish. The Hebrew word here means to bend, to curve, to make crooked, to distort; then, to overturn, to turn upside down. The same word is applied to the conduct of the wicked, in Psalms 119:78 : “They dealt perversely with me.” The idea here is, that their path is not a straight path; that God makes it a crooked way; that they are diverted from their design; that through them he accomplishes purposes which they did not intend; that he prevents their accomplishing their own designs; and that he will make their plans subservient to a higher and better purpose than their own. This is the eleventh reason why those who put their trust in God are happy. It is that God is worthy of confidence and love, because he has all the plans of wicked men entirely under his control.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 146:9. Preserveth the strangers — He has preserved you strangers in a strange land, where you have been in captivity for seventy years; and though in an enemy's country, he has provided for the widows and orphans as amply as if he had been in the promised land.
The way of the wicked he turneth upside down. — He subverts, turns aside. They shall not do all the wickedness they wish; they shall not do all that is in their power. In their career he will either stop them, turn them aside, or overturn them.
