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Psalms 146:9

Psalms chapter 146 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Context

v.8Jehovah openeth the eyes of the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;

v.9This passage

v.10Jehovah will reign for ever, Thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye Jehovah.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • James 1:27

    Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

  • Psalms 147:6

    Jehovah upholdeth the meek: He bringeth the wicked down to the ground.

  • Psalms 83:13

    O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.

  • Malachi 3:5

    And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

  • Exodus 22:21

    And a sojourner shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him: for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

  • Proverbs 4:19

    The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.