Psalms 146:9

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The LORD protects the resident foreigner; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 68:5 : 5 He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy dwelling place.
  • Ps 147:6 : 6 The LORD lifts up the oppressed, but knocks the wicked to the ground.
  • Jer 49:11 : 11 Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.”
  • Hos 14:3 : 3 Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride warhorses. We will never again say,‘Our gods’ to what our own hands have made. For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!”
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 “I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the resident foreigner and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written,“He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their adversity and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
  • Prov 15:25 : 25 The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but he maintains the boundaries of the widow.
  • Ps 83:13-17 : 13 O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind! 14 Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides, 15 chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm. 16 Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O LORD. 17 May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame!
  • Ps 145:20 : 20 The LORD protects all those who love him, but he destroys all the wicked.
  • Exod 22:21-22 : 21 “You must not wrong a resident foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. 22 “You must not afflict any widow or orphan.
  • Deut 10:18-19 : 18 who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing. 19 So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 You shall rejoice before him– you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you– in the place where the LORD chooses to locate his name.
  • 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 Now David had been told,“Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed,“Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O LORD.
  • 2 Sam 17:23 : 23 When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave of his father.
  • Esth 5:14 : 14 Haman’s wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him,“Have a gallows seventy-five feet high built, and in the morning tell the king that Mordecai should be hanged on it. Then go with the king to the banquet contented.” It seemed like a good idea to Haman, so he had the gallows built.
  • Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. The king’s rage then abated.
  • Esth 9:25 : 25 But when the matter came to the king’s attention, the king gave written orders that Haman’s evil intentions that he had devised against the Jews should fall on his own head. He and his sons were hanged on the gallows.
  • Job 5:12-14 : 12 He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned! 13 He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end. 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
  • Ps 18:26 : 26 You prove to be reliable to one who is blameless, but you prove to be deceptive to one who is perverse.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 10:18
    78%

    18who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.

  • Ps 146:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    7vindicates the oppressed, and gives food to the hungry. The LORD releases the imprisoned.

    8The LORD gives sight to the blind. The LORD lifts up all who are bent over. The LORD loves the godly.

  • Job 22:9
    77%

    9you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

  • Ps 68:5
    76%

    5He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy dwelling place.

  • Deut 27:19
    76%

    19‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • Jer 49:11
    75%

    11Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.”

  • Ps 94:6
    75%

    6They kill the widow and the resident foreigner, and they murder the fatherless.

  • Isa 10:2
    75%

    2to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

  • Ps 145:14
    74%

    14The LORD supports all who fall, and lifts up all who are bent over.

  • Prov 15:25
    74%

    25The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but he maintains the boundaries of the widow.

  • Job 36:6
    73%

    6He does not allow the wicked to live, but he gives justice to the poor.

  • Deut 24:17
    73%

    17You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

  • Isa 9:17
    73%

    17So the Lord was not pleased with their young men, he took no pity on their orphans and widows; for the whole nation was godless and did wicked things, every mouth was speaking disgraceful words. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

  • Ps 9:9
    73%

    9Consequently the LORD provides safety for the oppressed; he provides safety in times of trouble.

  • Jer 7:6
    73%

    6Stop oppressing resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop paying allegiance to other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.

  • Ps 10:14
    73%

    14You have taken notice, for you always see one who inflicts pain and suffering. The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you; you deliver the fatherless.

  • Ezek 22:7
    73%

    7They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the resident foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

  • Ps 147:6
    72%

    6The LORD lifts up the oppressed, but knocks the wicked to the ground.

  • Jer 22:3
    72%

    3The LORD says,“Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows. Do not kill innocent people in this land.

  • Ps 82:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering!

    4Rescue the poor and needy! Deliver them from the power of the wicked!

  • Job 29:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;

    13the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;

  • Ps 37:17
    72%

    17for evil men will lose their power, but the LORD sustains the godly.

  • Ps 109:9
    71%

    9May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!

  • Prov 10:29
    71%

    29The way of the LORD is like a stronghold for the upright, but it is destruction to evildoers.

  • Ps 41:1
    71%

    1For the music director; a psalm of David. How blessed is the one who treats the poor properly! When trouble comes, may the LORD deliver him.

  • Ps 116:6
    71%

    6The LORD protects the untrained; I was in serious trouble and he delivered me.

  • Ps 140:12
    71%

    12I know that the LORD defends the cause of the oppressed and vindicates the poor.

  • Ps 145:20
    71%

    20The LORD protects all those who love him, but he destroys all the wicked.

  • Ps 10:18
    71%

    18You defend the fatherless and oppressed, so that mere mortals may no longer terrorize them.

  • Prov 15:9
    71%

    9The LORD abhors the way of the wicked, but he will love those who pursue righteousness.

  • Prov 2:8
    71%

    8to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of his pious ones.

  • Lam 3:35
    70%

    35to deprive a person of his rights in the presence of the Most High,

  • Ps 146:10
    70%

    10The LORD rules forever, your God, O Zion, throughout the generations to come! Praise the LORD!

  • Ps 37:28
    70%

    28For the LORD promotes justice, and never abandons his faithful followers. They are permanently secure, but the children of evil men are wiped out.

  • Prov 13:6
    70%

    6Righteousness guards the one who lives with integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • Job 24:21
    70%

    21He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.

  • 1 Sam 2:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7The LORD impoverishes and makes wealthy; he humbles and he exalts.

    8He lifts the weak from the dust; he raises the poor from the ash heap to seat them with princes– he bestows on them an honored position. The foundations of the earth belong to the LORD– he placed the world on them.

  • Lam 5:3
    70%

    3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

  • Ps 113:7
    70%

    7He raises the poor from the dirt, and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile,

  • Exod 22:22
    70%

    22“You must not afflict any widow or orphan.

  • Ps 1:6
    70%

    6Certainly the LORD guards the way of the godly, but the way of the wicked ends in destruction.

  • Ps 129:4
    70%

    4The LORD is just; he cut the ropes of the wicked.”

  • Deut 14:29
    69%

    29Then the Levites(because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work you do.

  • Job 5:11
    69%

    11he sets the lowly on high, that those who mourn are raised to safety.

  • Ps 37:24
    69%

    24Even if he trips, he will not fall headlong, for the LORD holds his hand.

  • Ps 75:7
    69%

    7For God is the judge! He brings one down and exalts another.