Psalms 103 · Verse 6

Psalms 103:6

The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
Psalms 103:6, King James Version

Psalms 103:6 in other translations

BSBThe LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.
WEBThe LORD executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.
ASVJehovah executeth righteous acts, And judgments for all that are oppressed.
YLTJehovah is doing righteousness and judgments For all the oppressed.
DARBYJehovah executeth righteousness and justice for all that are oppressed.
BBEThe Lord gives decisions in righteousness for all who are in trouble.
WebsterThe LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

What does Psalms 103:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
6. Literally, "righteousness and judgments," denoting various acts of God's government.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 The Lord executeth - This shall be done because the Lord will avenge his elect who have cried unto him day and night for his deliverance: "He is slow to anger;" but he will punish. "He is plenteous in mercy," and he will save. The persevering sinner shall be destroyed; the humble penitent shall be saved.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 103:6-14
Truly God is good to all: he is in a special manner good to Israel. He has revealed himself and his grace to them. By his ways we may understand his precepts, the ways he requires us to walk in; and his promises and purposes. He always has been full of compassion. How unlike are those to God, who take every occasion to chide, and never know when to cease! What would become of us, if God should deal so with us? The Scripture says a great deal of the mercy of God, and we all have experienced it. The father pities his children that are weak in knowledge, and teaches them; pities them when they are froward, and bears with them; pities them when they are sick, and comforts them; pities them when they are fallen, and helps them to rise; pities them when they have offended, and, upon their submission, forgives them; pities them when wronged, and rights them: thus the Lord pities those that fear him. See why he pities. He considers the frailty of our bodies, and the folly of our souls, how little we can do, how little we can bear; in all which his compassion appears.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Psalms 103:6 in the original Hebrew

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עֹשֵׂ֣ה'o.Seh[is] doingH6213
צְדָק֣וֹתtze.da.Kot<of> righteousness<es>H6666
יְהוָ֑הYah.wehYahwehH3068
וּ֝מִשְׁפָּטִ֗יםu.mish.pa.Timand judgmentsH4941
לְכָל\־le.kholfor allH3605
עֲשׁוּקִֽים\׃'a.shu.Kim[those who] are oppressedH6231

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 103:6

  • Psalms 12:5

    For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

  • Psalms 9:9

    The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

  • Proverbs 14:31

    He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

  • Psalms 146:7

    Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:

  • Psalms 72:12

    For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.

  • Proverbs 22:22-23

    Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

  • Psalms 109:31

    For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

  • Deuteronomy 24:14-15

    Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.

  • James 2:6

    But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

  • Micah 2:1-3

    Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.

  • Micah 3:2-4

    Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

  • James 5:1-6

    Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
executeth.
9:9; 10:14-18; 12:5; 72:4,12; 109:31; 146:7; De 24:14,15
Job 27:13-23; Pr 14:31; 22:22,23; 23:10; Isa 14:4-32,17-19; 58:6,7
Jer 7:6-15; Eze 22:7,12-14; Mic 2:1-3; 3:2-4; Jas 2:6; 5:1-6

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Context

  • Psalms 103:5

    Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

  • Psalms 103:6

    The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

  • Psalms 103:7

    He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.

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Psalms 103:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Jehová el que hace justicia y derecho á todos los que padecen violencia.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
L’ Éternel fait justice et droit à tous les opprimés.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Jehova übt Gerechtigkeit und schafft Recht allen, die bedrückt werden.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Abyssus sicut vestimentum amictus ejus; super montes stabunt aquæ.