Deuteronomy 10:18
Good News Translation
He makes sure that orphans and widows are treated fairly; he loves the foreigners who live with our people, and gives them food and clothes.

New Revised Standard Version
who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD defends the rights of orphans and widows. He cares for foreigners and gives them food and clothing.

New American Bible
who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and loves the resident alien, giving them food and clothing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.

doth

Psalm 68:5 Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place:

Psalm 103:6 The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that suffer wrong.

Psalm 146:9 The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.

Jeremiah 49:11 Leave thy fatherless children: I will make them live: and thy widows shall hope in me.

Hosea 14:3 Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods: for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee.

loveth

Psalm 145:9 The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

Matthew 5:45 That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust.

Acts 14:17 Nevertheless he left not himself without testimony, doing good from heaven, giving rains and fruitful Seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

Context
A Call to Obedience
17Because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a great God and mighty and terrible, who accepteth no person nor taketh bribes. 18He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.19And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.…
Cross References
Exodus 22:22
You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan.

Exodus 22:23
If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry:

Numbers 10:32
And if thou comest with us, we will give thee what is the best of the riches which the Lord shall deliver to us.

Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of the fatherless and the widow: and all the people shall say: Amen.

2 Chronicles 19:7
Let the fear of the Lord be with you, and do all things with diligence: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor desire of gifts.

Psalm 68:5
Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place:

Psalm 146:9
The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

Deuteronomy 10:17
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