The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.
Radak
ה' שומר את גרים. "The Lord preserves the strangers (or the converts).": The stranger (or the convert), the orphan, and the widow are weak because they have no helper, and He guards them. Therefore, the Torah warns about them in several places, and the Lord protects them. Similarly, He guards Israel, who were strangers among the nations and weak like an orphan and a widow. יעודד.: This means He will elevate them. ודרך רשעים יעות. "but the way of the wicked he makes crooked": Just as He elevates the weak, He will make the way of the wicked crooked; they will be pushed away and fall on it.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.