Psalms 146:9. The Lord preserveth the strangers;
When our eyes are opened, and we are no more bowed down, but feel we have a sense of God’s love, yet still we know that we are exiles, banished ones, strangers and foreigners, as all our fathers were. It is comforting, therefore, to be assured that "the Lord preserveth the strangers."
Psalms 146:9. He relieveth the fatherless and widow:
He does so literally: "A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation." He also relieves such spiritually. When any feel themselves to be poverty-stricken, and unable to help themselves, let them look to him who is both able and willing to succor them, for "he relieveth the fatherless and the widow."
Psalms 146:9. But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Where they looked for joy, they experienced disappointment, where they expected success, they met with defeat, and whereas they thought to heap to themselves pleasures according to their lusts, they find that they have only increased their misery.
Psalms 146:9. The Lord preserveth the strangers;
When our eyes are opened, and we are no more bowed down, but feel we have a sense of God’s love, yet still we know that we are exiles, banished ones, strangers and foreigners, as all our fathers were. It is comforting, therefore, to be assured that "the Lord preserveth the strangers."
Psalms 146:9. He relieveth the fatherless and widow:
He does so literally: "A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation." He also relieves such spiritually. When any feel themselves to be poverty-stricken, and unable to help themselves, let them look to him who is both able and willing to succor them, for "he relieveth the fatherless and the widow."
Psalms 146:9. But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Where they looked for joy, they experienced disappointment, where they expected success, they met with defeat, and whereas they thought to heap to themselves pleasures according to their lusts, they find that they have only increased their misery.