Psalms 14:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You have put to shame the thoughts of the poor, but the Lord is his support.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 9:9 : 9 The Lord will be a high tower for those who are crushed down, a high tower in times of trouble;
  • Ps 4:2 : 2 O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)
  • Ps 42:10 : 10 The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?
  • Ps 46:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song.> God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble.
  • Ps 142:5 : 5 I have made my cry to you, O Lord; I have said, You are my safe place, and my heritage in the land of the living.
  • Isa 37:10-11 : 10 This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria. 11 No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse: and will you be kept safe from their fate?
  • Ezek 35:10 : 10 Because you have said, The two nations and the two countries are to be mine, and we will take them for our heritage; though the Lord was there:
  • Dan 3:15 : 15 Now if you are ready, on hearing the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, to go down on your faces in worship before the image which I have made, it is well: but if you will not give worship, that same hour you will be put into a burning and flaming fire; and what god is there who will be able to take you out of my hands?
  • Matt 27:40-43 : 40 You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41 In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said, 42 A saviour of others, he has no salvation for himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will have faith in him. 43 He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God.
  • Heb 6:18 : 18 So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;
  • Ps 22:7-8 : 7 I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say, 8 He put his faith in the Lord; let the Lord be his saviour now: let the Lord be his saviour, because he had delight in him.
  • Ps 40:17 : 17 Though I am poor and in need, the Lord has me in mind; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O my God.
  • Neh 4:2-4 : 2 And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Such is their building that if a fox goes up it, their stone wall will be broken down. 4 Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:
  • Ps 3:2 : 2 Unnumbered are those who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. (Selah.)

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    6 This poor man's cry came before the Lord, and he gave him salvation from all his troubles.

  • Ps 74:21
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    21 O let not the crushed be turned back in shame; let the low man and the poor give praise to your name.

  • Isa 3:14
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    14 The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.

  • Isa 14:32
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    32 What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.

  • Ps 35:10
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    10 All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.

  • Ps 140:12
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    12 I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.

  • Jer 5:4
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    4 Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

  • Ps 9:9
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    9 The Lord will be a high tower for those who are crushed down, a high tower in times of trouble;

  • Ps 82:3-4
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    3 Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.

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  • Job 24:4
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    4 The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

  • Ps 53:5
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    5 They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.

  • Jas 2:6
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    6 But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?

  • Ps 10:14
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    14 You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

  • Isa 25:4
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    4 For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm.

  • Prov 28:6
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    6 Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.

  • Job 5:15-16
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    15 But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong.

    16 So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.

  • Ps 69:33
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    33 For the ears of the Lord are open to the poor, and he takes thought for his prisoners.

  • Isa 29:19
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    19 And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

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    11 You worshippers of the Lord, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.

  • Prov 14:26
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    26 For him in whose heart is the fear of the Lord there is strong hope: and his children will have a safe place.

  • Ps 12:5
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    5 Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

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    7 The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;

  • Ps 35:26
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    26 Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

  • Prov 19:17
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    17 He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.

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    6 It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need.

  • Ps 14:7
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    7 May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.

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    6 The Lord keeps the simple; I was made low, and he was my saviour.

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    15 The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.

  • Prov 29:13-14
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    13 The poor man and his creditor come face to face: the Lord gives light to their eyes equally.

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    2 The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.

  • Ps 72:12
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    12 For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.

  • Prov 14:20
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    20 The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6 Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

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    16 Let their faces be full of shame; so that they may give honour to your name, O Lord.

  • Prov 22:22
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    22 Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

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    4 Happy is the man who has faith in the Lord, and does not give honour to the men of pride or to those who are turned away to deceit.

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    2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

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    5 Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright.

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