Psalms 68:5 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 68:5

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.

YLT

Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, Is God in His holy habitation.

DBT

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, isGod in his holy habitation.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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32 verses on the floor

James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Psalms 10:14
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.
Jeremiah 49:11
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Deuteronomy 10:18
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Psalms 82:3–4
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

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He has an ear open to all their complaints and a hand open to all their wants. He is so in his holy habitation, which may be understood either of the habitation of his glory in heaven (there he has prepared his throne of judgment, which the fatherless and widow have free recourse to, and are taken under the protection of, Ps. ix.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 68:5DEU 10:18 PSA 146:9
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 68:5DEU 10:18 JER 49:11
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 68:5JER 49:11 HOS 14:3
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 68:5PSA 146:9 PSA 147:6
PSA 68:5PSA 146:9 DEU 10:18-19
PSA 68:5DEU 10:18 ISA 1:17
PSA 68:5PSA 146:9 MAL 3:5
PSA 68:5JER 49:11 JAS 1:27

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