Psalm 146:9 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

⁹ The stranger's shield, the widow's stay, the orphan's help, is he: But yet by him the wicked's way turn'd upside down shall be.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ The LORD preserveth the strangers; He relieveth the fatherless and widow: But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ The Lord protects and preserves the strangers and temporary residents, He upholds the fatherless and the widow and sets them upright, but the way of the wicked He makes crooked (turns upside down and brings to ruin).

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Common English Bible

⁹ The LORD: who protects immigrants, who helps orphans and widows, but who makes the way of the wicked twist and turn!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ He gives their food to beasts of burden and to young ravens that call upon him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.

Psalm 146:9 Cross References

Psalm 10:14

Thou hast it seen; for their mischief and spite thou wilt repay: The poor commits himself to thee; thou art the orphan's stay.

Psalm 145:20

The Lord preserves all who him love, that nought can them annoy: But he all those that wicked are will utterly destroy.

Psalm 147:6

The Lord lifts up the meek; and casts the wicked to the ground.

Psalm 18:26

Pure to the pure, froward thou kyth'st unto the froward wight.

Psalm 68:5

Because the Lord a father is unto the fatherless; God is the widow's judge, within his place of holiness.