Psalms 94:6

New Living Translation

They kill widows and foreigners and murder orphans.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;

Geneva Bible (1587)
They slay the widowe and the stranger, and murther the fatherlesse.

Christian Standard Bible®
They kill the widow and the resident alienand murder the fatherless.

Hebrew Names Version
They kill the widow and the alien, And murder the fatherless.

Easy-to-Read Version
They kill widows and foreigners living in our country. They murder orphans.

Amplified Bible
They kill the widow and the alien And murder the fatherless.

American Standard Version
They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.

Contemporary English Version
They murder widows, foreigners, and orphans.

Complete Jewish Bible
They kill widows and strangers and murder the fatherless.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

King James Version (1611)
They slay the widowe and the stranger: and murder the fatherlesse.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They have slain the widow and fatherless, and murdered the stranger.

English Revised Version
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

Berean Standard Bible
They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

Lexham English Bible
They kill widow and stranger, and they murder orphans,

Literal Translation
They kill the widow and the stranger, and murder the orphan.

New Century Version
They kill widows and foreigners and murder orphans.

New English Translation
They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless.

New King James Version
They slay the widow and the stranger, And murder the fatherless.

New Life Bible
They kill the woman whose husband has died and the stranger. They kill the children who have no parents.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The widow and sojourner, they will slay, And, the fatherless, murder.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(93-6) They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have murdered the fatherless.

George Lamsa Translation
They slay the widow and the innocent, and murder the fatherless.

Good News Translation
They kill widows and orphans, and murder the strangers who live in our land.

New American Standard Bible
They kill the widow and the stranger And murder the orphans.

King James Version
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They murther the wyddowe and the straunger: & put the fatherlesse to death.

New Revised Standard
They kill the widow and the stranger, they murder the orphan,

Darby Translation
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei killiden a widowe and a comelyng; and thei han slayn fadirles children and modirles.

Young's Literal Translation
Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.

World English Bible
They kill the widow and the alien, And murder the fatherless.

Revised Standard Version
They slay the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;

Update Bible Version
They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.

Webster's Bible Translation
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

Bible in Basic English
They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They murthur the widdowe and the straunger, and put the fatherlesse to death.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They slay the widow and the stranger And murder the orphans.

Legacy Standard Bible
They slay the widow and the sojournerAnd murder the orphans.

Contextual Overview

¹ O Lord , the God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, let your glorious justice shine forth! ² Arise, O Judge of the earth. Give the proud what they deserve. ³ How long, O Lord ? How long will the wicked be allowed to gloat? ⁴ How long will they speak with arrogance? How long will these evil people boast? ⁵ They crush your people, Lord , hurting those you claim as your own. ⁶ They kill widows and foreigners and murder orphans. ⁷ "The Lord isn't looking," they say, "and besides, the God of Israel doesn't care." ⁸ Think again, you fools! When will you finally catch on? ⁹ Is he deaf—the one who made your ears? Is he blind—the one who formed your eyes? ¹⁰ He punishes the nations—won't he also punish you? He knows everything—doesn't he also know what you are doing?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 10:2, Isaiah 13:15-18, Jeremiah 7:6, Jeremiah 22:3, Ezekiel 22:7, Malachi 3:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:22 - General Exodus 23:9 - thou shalt not Deuteronomy 29:19 - that he bless Job 22:9 - widows Proverbs 23:10 - fatherless Ezekiel 22:29 - oppressed 1 Timothy 5:3 - widows

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They slay the widow and the stranger,.... Who are so both in a literal and figurative sense, such who are weak and feeble, helpless and friendless; or who are deprived of their faithful pastors, who were as husbands and fathers to them, and who profess themselves pilgrims and strangers here; these the followers of the man of sin have inhumanly put to death, supposing they did God good service:

and murder the fatherless; having slain the parents in a cruel and barbarous manner, murder their infants; or figuratively such who are as orphans, destitute of their spiritual fathers, who were the instruments of begetting them in Christ, and of nourishing them with the words of faith and good doctrine; with the blood of these the whore of Rome has often made herself drunk, and therefore blood shall be given her to drink, Revelation 17:5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless - To do this is everywhere represented as a special crime, and as especially offensive to God from the fact that these classes are naturally feeble and unprotected. See the notes at Isaiah 1:17; Psalms 68:5; Psalms 82:3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 94:6. They slay the widow — Nebuchadnezzar carried on his wars with great cruelty. He carried fire and sword every where; spared neither age, sex, nor condition. The widow, the orphan, and the stranger, persons in the most desolate condition of life, were not distinguished from others by his ruthless sword.