Psalms 146:9

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The LORD protects the sojourners; he sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the way of the wicked.

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  • Ps 68:5 : 5 Sing to God, sing praises to His name; prepare the way for Him who rides through the deserts—His name is Yah, and rejoice before Him.
  • Ps 147:6 : 6 The LORD lifts up the humble; He brings the wicked down to the ground.
  • Jer 49:11 : 11 Leave your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in me.
  • Hos 14:3 : 3 Take words with you and return to the LORD. Say to him: 'Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may offer the sacrifice of our lips.'
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, and those who swear falsely; against those who defraud workers of their wages, oppress widows and orphans, and deprive foreigners of justice. They do not fear me, says the Lord of Hosts.
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written, 'He catches the wise in their craftiness.'
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.
  • Prov 15:25 : 25 The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He secures the boundary of the widow.
  • Ps 83:13-17 : 13 who said, 'Let us take possession of the pastures of God for ourselves.' 14 My God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind. 15 As fire burns a forest, and as flames set the mountains ablaze, 16 so pursue them with your storm and terrify them with your tempest. 17 Fill their faces with shame so that they will seek your name, O LORD.
  • Ps 145:20 : 20 The LORD watches over all who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked.
  • Exod 22:21-22 : 21 Do not afflict a widow or an orphan. 22 If you do afflict them and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.
  • Deut 10:18-19 : 18 He ensures justice for the fatherless and the widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing. 19 You are also to love the foreigner, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 Rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your son and daughter, your male and female servants, the Levite in your towns, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow living among you, in the place the Lord your God chooses to establish His name.
  • 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 Then someone told David, 'Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.' So David prayed, 'O LORD, turn Ahithophel’s counsel into foolishness.'
  • 2 Sam 17:23 : 23 When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey, set out for his house in his hometown, set his house in order, and then hanged himself. He died and was buried in his father's tomb.
  • Esth 5:14 : 14 His wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, "Have a gallows constructed, seventy-five feet high, and in the morning suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it. Then go with the king to the banquet and enjoy yourself." This suggestion pleased Haman, and he had the gallows built.
  • Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath subsided.
  • Esth 9:25 : 25 But when the matter came before the king, he ordered by letter that the wicked scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
  • Job 5:12-14 : 12 He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands achieve no success. 13 He traps the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the twisted are quickly foiled. 14 They encounter darkness by day and grope in the noonday as if it were night.
  • Ps 18:26 : 26 To the faithful You show Yourself faithful; to the blameless You show Yourself blameless.

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    18He ensures justice for the fatherless and the widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

  • Ps 146:7-8
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    7He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,

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    9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

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    5Sing to God, sing praises to His name; prepare the way for Him who rides through the deserts—His name is Yah, and rejoice before Him.

  • Deut 27:19
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    19Cursed is anyone who denies justice to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Jer 49:11
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    11Leave your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in me.

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    6They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2They deprive the poor of justice and rob the rights of the needy among my people, making widows their spoil and leaving orphans to be plundered.

  • Ps 145:14
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    14The LORD supports all who fall and raises up all who are bowed down.

  • Prov 15:25
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    25The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He secures the boundary of the widow.

  • Job 36:6
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    6He does not keep the wicked alive but gives justice to the afflicted.

  • Deut 24:17
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    17Do not pervert justice for the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's garment as security for a pledge.

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    17For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns. It sets the thickets of the forest ablaze, and they roll upward in columns of smoke.

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    9He will judge the world in righteousness; he will govern the peoples with equity.

  • Jer 7:6
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    6if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or follow other gods, bringing harm upon yourselves,

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    14But You have seen; for You observe trouble and grief, to repay it by Your hand. The helpless entrusts themselves to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

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    7Within you, they have treated father and mother with contempt; they have oppressed the foreigner in your midst; they have wronged the orphan and the widow.

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    6The LORD lifts up the humble; He brings the wicked down to the ground.

  • Jer 22:3
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    3Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.

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    12Because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the orphan who had no helper.

    13The blessing of the one about to perish came upon me, and I made the widow's heart sing for joy.

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    22If you do afflict them and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.

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