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5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. …
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)In these verses, I. David prays that God would appear in his glory, 1. For the confusion of his enemies ( Ps. 68:1 , 2 ): “ Let God arise , as a judge to pass sentence upon them, as a general to take the field and do execution upon them; and let them be scattered , and flee before him, as unable to keep their ground, much less to make head against him. Let God arise, as the sun when he goes forth…
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