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Bless the LORD, O My Soul

Psalms 103:6

In 11 translations

BSB
The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.
KJV
The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
WEB
Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.
ASV
Jehovah executeth righteous acts, And judgments for all that are oppressed.
LSV
YHWH is doing righteousness and judgments || For all the oppressed.
YLT
Jehovah is doing righteousness and judgments For all the oppressed.
DBY
Jehovah executeth righteousness and justice for all that are oppressed.
DRC102:6
The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that suffer wrong.
GNV
The Lord executeth righteousnes and iudgement to all that are oppressed.
JPS
The LORD executeth righteousness, and acts of justice for all that are oppressed.
LXXE102:6
The Lord executes mercy and judgment for all that are injured.

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Original-language editions

WLC
עֹשֵׂ֣ה צְדָק֣וֹת יְהוָ֑ה וּ֝מִשְׁפָּטִ֗ים לְכָל־עֲשׁוּקִֽים׃
LXX-Br102:6
Ποιῶν ἐλεημοσύνας ὁ Κύριος, καὶ κρίμα πᾶσι τοῖς ἀδικουμένοις.

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  • Psalms 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
  • Psalms 9:9The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
  • Proverbs 14:31Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
  • Psalms 146:7He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
  • Psalms 72:12For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
  • Proverbs 22:22–23Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate, for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.
  • Deuteronomy 24:14–15Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns. You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them.…
  • Psalms 109:31For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.
  • James 2:6But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
  • Micah 2:1–3Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands. They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of…
  • Micah 3:2–4You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones. You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh…
  • James 5:1–6Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you. Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and…
  • Jeremiah 7:6–15if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land…
  • Psalms 72:4May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.
  • Job 27:13–23This is the wicked man’s portion from God— the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty. Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food. His survivors…
  • Psalms 10:14–18But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless. Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his…

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