Psalm 147:6
Strong's Lexicon
The LORD
יְהוָ֑ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: Jehovah = 'the existing One' 1) the proper name of the one true God 1a) unpronounced except with the vowel pointings of H0136

sustains
מְעוֹדֵ֣ד (mə·‘ō·w·ḏêḏ)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5749: 1) to return, repeat, go about, do again 1a) (Piel) to surround, go round and round 1b) (Pilel) to restore, relieve 1c) (Hithpalel) to be restored 2) to bear witness 2a) (Qal) to bear witness, say again and again 2b) (Hiphil) 2b1) to testify, bear witness 2b2) to cause to testify, take or call as witness, invoke 2b3) to protest, affirm solemnly, warn, exhort or enjoin solemnly, admonish, charge 2c) (Hophal) to protest, give warning

the afflicted,
עֲנָוִ֣ים (‘ă·nā·wîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6035: 1) poor, humble, afflicted, meek 1a) poor, needy 1b) poor and weak 1c) poor, weak and afflicted 1d) humble, lowly, meek

[but] casts
מַשְׁפִּ֖יל (maš·pîl)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8213: 1) to be or become low, sink, be humbled, be abased 1a) (Qal) to be or become low 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to lay or bring low, humiliate 1b2) to set in a lower place, show abasement 1b3) to make low, sit down

the wicked
רְשָׁעִ֣ים (rə·šā·‘îm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7563: 1) wicked, criminal 1a) guilty one, one guilty of crime (subst) 1b) wicked (hostile to God) 1c) wicked, guilty of sin (against God or man)

to the ground.
אָֽרֶץ׃ (’ā·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: 1) land, earth 1a) earth 1a1) whole earth (as opposed to a part) 1a2) earth (as opposed to heaven) 1a3) earth (inhabitants) 1b) land 1b1) country, territory 1b2) district, region 1b3) tribal territory 1b4) piece of ground 1b5) land of Canaan, Israel 1b6) inhabitants of land 1b7) Sheol, land without return, (under) world 1b8) city (-state) 1c) ground, surface of the earth 1c1) ground 1c2) soil 1d) (in phrases) 1d1) people of the land 1d2) space or distance of country (in measurements of distance) 1d3) level or plain country 1d4) land of the living 1d5) end(s) of the earth 1e) (almost wholly late in usage) 1e1) lands, countries 1e1a) often in contrast to Canaan

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.

Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah is causing the meek to stand, Making low the wicked unto the earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD helps the afflicted but brings the wicked to the ground.

New American Standard Bible
The LORD supports the afflicted; He brings down the wicked to the ground.

King James Bible
The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
The LORD sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground.

New Living Translation
The LORD supports the humble, but he brings the wicked down into the dust.

English Standard Version
The LORD lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked to the ground.

New American Standard Bible
The LORD supports the afflicted; He brings down the wicked to the ground.

King James Bible
The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD helps the afflicted but brings the wicked to the ground.

International Standard Version
The LORD supports the afflicted while he casts the wicked to the ground.

NET Bible
The LORD lifts up the oppressed, but knocks the wicked to the ground.

American Standard Version
Jehovah upholdeth the meek: He bringeth the wicked down to the ground.

English Revised Version
The LORD upholdeth the meek: he bringeth the wicked down to the ground.

Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah is causing the meek to stand, Making low the wicked unto the earth.
















Cross References
1 Samuel 5:6
But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.

Psalm 37:24
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

Psalm 75:7
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

Psalm 146:8
The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:

Psalm 146:9
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 147:5
Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

Psalm 147:4
He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.

Psalm 147:3
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Psalm 147:7
Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:

Psalm 147:8
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
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