Psalm 68:5 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

⁵ Because the Lord a father is unto the fatherless; God is the widow's judge, within his place of holiness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ A father of the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows is God in His holy habitation.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

Common English Bible

⁵ Father of orphans and defender of widows is God in his holy habitation.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Those who hate me without cause have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. My enemies, who persecuted me unjustly, have been strengthened. Then I was required to pay for what I did not take.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.

Psalm 68:5 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 10:18

To judge the fatherless, and those that are oppressed sore; That man, that is but sprung of earth, may them oppress no more.

Psalm 118:19

O set ye open unto me the gates of righteousness; Then will I enter into them, and I the Lord will bless.

Psalm 146:9

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.

Psalm 150:6

Let each thing breathing praise the Lord. Praise to the Lord give ye.

Psalm 33:14

He views all from his dwelling-place that in the earth do dwell.

Psalm 72:2

With right he shall thy people judge, thy poor with uprightness.

Psalm 72:4

The people's poor ones he shall judge, the needy's children save; And those shall he in pieces break who them oppressed have.