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Psalms 146:9

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— The LORD protects the strangers; He supports the fatherless and the widow, But He thwarts the way of the wicked.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— The LORD preserveth the strangers; he upholdeth the fatherless and widow; but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Yahweh, who preserveth sojourners, The fatherless and widows, he relieveth,—but, the way of the lawless, he overturneth.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— The Lord keepeth the strangers: he relieueth the fatherlesse ? widowe: but he ouerthroweth the way of the wicked.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— The LORD preserueth the strangers, he relieueth the fatherlesse and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth vpside downe.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— The LORD takes care of the poor; he feeds the fatherless and widows; but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— he will relieve the orphan and widow: but will utterly remove the way of sinners.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Yahweh preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Yähwè יָהוֶה 3068
{3068} Prime
יְהֹוָה
Y@hovah
{yeh-ho-vaw'}
From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.
preserveth 8104
{8104} Prime
שָׁמַר
shamar
{shaw-mar'}
A primitive root; properly to hedge about (as with thorns), that is, guard; generally to protect, attend to, etc.
z8802
<8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Participle Active (See H8814)
Count - 5386
x853
(0853) Complement
אֵת
'eth
{ayth}
Apparently contracted from H0226 in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely).
the strangers; 1616
{1616} Prime
גֵּר
ger
{gare}
From H1481; properly a guest; by implication a foreigner.
he relieveth 5749
{5749} Prime
עוּד
`uwd
{ood}
A primitive root; to duplicate or repeat; by implication to protest, testify (as by reiteration); intensively to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication).
z8766
<8766> Grammar
Stem - Pilel (See H8841)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 2
the fatherless 3490
{3490} Prime
יָתוֹם
yathowm
{yaw-thome'}
From an unused root meaning to be lonely; a bereaved person.
and widow: 490
{0490} Prime
אַלְמָנָה
'almanah
{al-maw-naw'}
Feminine of H0488; a widow; also a desolate place.
but the way 1870
{1870} Prime
דֶּרֶךְ
derek
{deh'-rek}
From H1869; a road (as trodden); figuratively a course of life or mode of action, often adverbially.
of the wicked 7563
{7563} Prime
רָשָׁע
rasha`
{raw-shaw'}
From H7561; morally wrong; concretely an (actively) bad person.
he turneth upside down. 5791
{5791} Prime
עָוַת
`avath
{aw-vath'}
A primitive root; to wrest.
z8762
<8762> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 2447
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 146:1-10.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 146:5-10.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Psalms 146:9

The LORD preserveth the (g) strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

(g) Meaning, all who are destitute of worldly means and help.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
preserveth:

Psalms 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation.
Deuteronomy 10:18-19 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. ... Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 16:11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that [is] within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that [are] among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
Proverbs 15:25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Jeremiah 49:11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Hosea 14:3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
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 false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.

the way:

Psalms 18:26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
Psalms 83:13-17 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. ... Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
Psalms 145:20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
Psalms 147:6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.
2 Samuel 15:31 And [one] told David, saying, Ahithophel [is] among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
2 Samuel 17:23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled [his] ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
Esther 5:14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
Esther 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Esther 9:25 But when [Esther] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Job 5:12-14 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise. ... They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
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Dt 10:18; 16:11. 2S 15:31; 17:23. Es 5:14; 7:10; 9:25. Jb 5:12. Ps 18:26; 68:5; 83:13; 145:20; 147:6. Pv 4:19; 15:25. Jr 49:11. Ho 14:3. Mal 3:5. 1Co 3:19. Jm 1:27.

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