Psalms 146:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

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  • Ps 68:5 : 5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
  • Ps 147:6 : 6 The LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground.
  • Jer 49:11 : 11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.
  • Hos 14:3 : 3 Assyria will not save us; we will not ride on horses: neither will we say anymore to the work of our hands, You are our gods: for in you the orphan finds mercy.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.
  • Prov 15:25 : 25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud, but He will establish the boundary of the widow.
  • Ps 83:13-17 : 13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. 14 As the fire burns a forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire; 15 So pursue them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm. 16 Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O LORD. 17 Let them be confounded and troubled forever; yes, let them be put to shame and perish:
  • Ps 145:20 : 20 The LORD preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.
  • Exod 22:21-22 : 21 You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22 You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
  • Deut 10:18-19 : 18 He executes the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. 19 Therefore love the stranger: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place His name there.
  • 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray you, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
  • 2 Sam 17:23 : 23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in his father's sepulchre.
  • Esth 5:14 : 14 Then Zeresh, his wife, and all his friends said to him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and tomorrow speak to the king that Mordecai may be hanged on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet. And this pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.
  • Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's anger subsided.
  • Esth 9:25 : 25 But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon 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 cannot accomplish their schemes. 13 He catches the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the perverse is brought to a rapid end. 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.
  • Ps 18:26 : 26 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the perverse you will show yourself contrary.

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    18He executes the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.

  • Ps 146:7-8
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    7Who executes judgment for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners:

    8The LORD opens the eyes of the blind; the LORD raises those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous:

  • Job 22:9
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    9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Ps 68:5
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    5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

  • Deut 27:19
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    19Cursed be he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Jer 49:11
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    11Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

  • Ps 94:6
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    6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

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

  • Prov 15:25
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    25The LORD will destroy the house of the proud, but He will establish the boundary of the widow.

  • Job 36:6
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    6He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the poor.

  • Deut 24:17
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    17You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:

  • Isa 9:17
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    17Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men, nor have mercy on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Ps 9:9
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    9The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

  • Jer 7:6
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    6If you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your harm;

  • Ps 10:14
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    14You have seen it; for You behold mischief and spite, to repay it with Your hand; the poor commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

  • Ezek 22:7
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    7In you they have treated father and mother with contempt: in your midst they have dealt oppressively with the stranger: in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

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    6The LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground.

  • Jer 22:3
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    3Thus says the LORD; Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • Ps 82:3-4
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    3Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.

    4Deliver the poor and needy; rescue them from the hand of the wicked.

  • Job 29:12-13
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    12Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless, and the one who had no helper.

    13The blessing of a dying man came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

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    17For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.

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    9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

  • Prov 10:29
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    29The way of the LORD is strength to the upright, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

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    1Blessed is he who considers the poor; the LORD will deliver him in times of trouble.

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    6The LORD preserves the simple: I was brought low, and He helped me.

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    12I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

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    20The LORD preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

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    18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may oppress no more.

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    9The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but He loves those who pursue righteousness.

  • Prov 2:8
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    8He guards the paths of justice and preserves the way of His saints.

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    35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

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    10The LORD shall reign forever, your God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise the LORD.

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    28For the LORD loves justice, and does not forsake his saints; they are preserved forever, but the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.

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    6Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

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    21He does evil to the barren who does not bear, and shows no kindness to the widow.

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    7The LORD makes poor and makes rich: he brings low and lifts up.

    8He raises up the poor from the dust, and lifts up the needy from the ashes, to set them among princes and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he has set the world upon them.

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    3We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

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    7He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the ash heap;

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    22You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

  • Ps 1:6
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    6For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

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    4The LORD is righteous; He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

  • Deut 14:29
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    29And the Levite, (because he has no part nor inheritance with you,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

  • Job 5:11
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    11To set on high those that are low; that those who mourn may be lifted to safety.

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    24Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for the LORD upholds him with his hand.

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    7But God is the judge; he puts down one and exalts another.