Then someone told David saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David prayed, “Adonai, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
Psalm 146:9 - Tree of Life Version Adonai protects outsiders, upholds the fatherless and the widow, but thwarts the way of the wicked. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. Common English Bible 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 He gives their food to beasts of burden and to young ravens that call upon him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him. |
Then someone told David saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David prayed, “Adonai, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
Now when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, went to his home in his hometown set his house in order, and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.
Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let them set up a gallows 50 cubits high, and in the morning ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go happily with the king to the banquet.” This idea delighted Haman and he ordered the gallows to be built.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s rage subsided.
But when it came to the king’s attention, he issued a written edict that the wicked scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. (
You saw—for You see trouble and grief, to take it in Your hand. The victim puts his trust in You— You are the helper of the orphan.
Adonai watches over all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
With the loyal You deal loyally. With the blameless You are blameless.
Sing to God, sing praises to His Name. Prepare the road for Him who rides through the deserts, whose Name is Adonai— and rejoice before Him.
Adonai tears down a proud man’s house, but He maintains the widow’s boundary.
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what makes them stumble.
Leave your orphans— I will keep them alive, and let your widows trust in Me.”
Take words with you and return to Adonai. Say to Him: “Take away all iniquity, and accept what is good, so we may repay with offerings of our lips:
“Then I will draw near to you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers those who extort a worker’s wage, or oppress the widow or an orphan, those who mislead a stranger. They do not fear Me,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the sight of God. For it is written, “He catches the clever in their craftiness.”
So you will rejoice before Adonai your God in the place Adonai your God chooses to make His Name dwell—you, your son and daughter, slave and maid, Levite and outsider, orphan and widow in your midst.
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.