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Psalms 94:6

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

KJV

Venite, adoremus, et procidamus, et ploremus ante Dominum qui fecit nos :

Vulgate

δεῦτε προσκυνήσωμεν καὶ προσπέσωμεν αὐτῷ, καὶ κλαύσωμεν ἐναντίον Κυρίου τοῦ ποιήσαντος ἡμᾶς·

LXX

They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.

ASV

אַ֭לְמָנָה וְ/גֵ֣ר יַהֲרֹ֑גוּ וִֽ/יתוֹמִ֣ים יְרַצֵּֽחוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַלְמָנָ֖ה
'lmnh
noun · 56×
גֵּ֖ר
gr
noun · 92×
יָּת֥וֹם
ytvm
noun · 42×
ם
m
verb · 167×
רֹצֵ֔חַ
rtsch
verb · 47×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Tim 5:3 — Honour widows that are widows indeed.
  • Deut 29:19 — And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thir
  • Exod 22:22 — Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
  • Ezek 22:7 — In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
  • Ezek 22:29 — The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
  • Isa 10:2 — To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
  • Jer 7:6 — If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
  • Mal 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
  • Prov 23:10 — Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: