Psalms 146:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow - (Psalms 68:5-6.) Therefore he will preserve those who are not strangers, but His own people, when in danger, and will relieve (or stablish; raise up) His widowed (Luke 18:3; Luke 18:7) and orphan-like (John 14:18, margin) Church.

But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down - he makes their fate the very opposite of what their own "thoughts" devised it (Psalms 146:4; Proverbs 19:21): instead of happiness, which they thought to attain by perverse ways, their end is misery.

Psalms 146:9

9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.