Psalm 68:5 {67:6}
Good News Translation
God, who lives in his sacred Temple, cares for orphans and protects widows.

New Revised Standard Version
Father of orphans and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

Contemporary English Version
Our God, from your sacred home you take care of orphans and protect widows.

New American Bible
Father of the fatherless, defender of widows — God in his holy abode,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

A father

Psalm 10:14,18 Thou seest it, for thou considerest labour and sorrow: that thou mayst deliver them into thy hands. To thee is the poor man left: thou wilt be a helper to the orphan. . . .

Psalm 82:3,4 Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor. . . .

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

Job 31:16,17 If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait: . . .

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.

a judge

Psalm 72:2,4 Give to the king thy judgment, O God, and to the king's son thy justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment. . . .

Deuteronomy 10:18 He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.

Job 29:12,13 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper. . . .

Isaiah 1:23 Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them.

Jeremiah 5:28 They are grown gross and fat: and have most wickedly transgressed my words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have not managed the cause of the fatherless, and they have not judged the judgment of the poor.

Luke 18:2-7 Saying: There was a judge in a certain city, who feared not God nor regarded man. . . .

Ephesians 5:1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children:

in his

Psalm 33:14 From his habitation which he hath prepared, he hath looked upon all that dwell on the earth.

2 Chronicles 6:2 But I have built a house to his name, that he might dwell there for ever.

2 Chronicles 30:27 And the priests and the Levites rose up and blessed the people: and their voice was heard: and their prayer came to the holy dwelling place of heaven.

Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 66:1 Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool: what is this house that you will build to me? and what is this place of my rest?

Acts 7:48,49 Yet the most High dwelleth not in houses made by hands, as the prophet saith: . . .

Context
God's Enemies Are Scattered
4Sing ye to God, sing a psalm to his name, make a way for him who ascendeth upon the west: the Lord is his name. Rejoice ye before him: but the wicked shall be troubled at his presence, 5Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place:6God who maketh men of one manner to dwell in a house: Who bringeth out them that were bound in strength; in like manner them that provoke, that dwell in sepulchres.…
Cross References
Exodus 22:23
If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry:

Deuteronomy 10:18
He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.

Deuteronomy 26:15
Look from thy sanctuary, and thy high habitation of heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou didst swear to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

2 Chronicles 30:27
And the priests and the Levites rose up and blessed the people: and their voice was heard: and their prayer came to the holy dwelling place of heaven.

Psalm 10:14
Thou seest it, for thou considerest labour and sorrow: that thou mayst deliver them into thy hands. To thee is the poor man left: thou wilt be a helper to the orphan.

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

Proverbs 15:25
The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will strengthen the borders of the widow.

Isaiah 63:15
Look down from heaven, and behold from thy holy habitation and the place of thy glory: where is thy zeal, and thy strength, the multitude of thy bowels, and of thy mercies? they have held back themselves from me.

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.

Psalm 68:4
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