Psalm 146:9

Almost a year ago, the Psalm on Worship Anew (28 September 2025, the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost) was Psalm 146, and I noticed a chiastic structure in the latter half of verse 9 (in the ESV):

he [the LORD] upholds

the widow and the fatherless,

but the way of the wicked

he brings to ruin.

Such a structure, which isn't in the Hebrew, emphasizes the contrasts between "upholds" and "brings to ruin" and "the widow and the fatherless" and "the wicked."

The NKJV seems to go even a step further:

He relieves

the fatherless and widow;

but the way of the wicked

He turns upside down.

The phrase "turns upside down" highlights the inverted nature of the chiasm.