Psalms 146:7

World English Bible (2000)

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

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  • Ps 103:6 : 6 Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.
  • Ps 68:6 : 6 God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
  • Isa 61:1 : 1 The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
  • Jer 31:14 : 14 I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh.
  • Zech 9:11-12 : 11 As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water. 12 Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Luke 1:53 : 53 He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.
  • Luke 4:18 : 18 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
  • Luke 9:17 : 17 They ate, and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
  • Acts 5:19 : 19 But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,
  • Acts 16:26 : 26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were loosened.
  • Ps 105:17-20 : 17 He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave. 18 They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons, 19 until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh's word proved him true. 20 The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
  • Ps 107:9-9 : 9 For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good. 10 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
  • Ps 107:14-16 : 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds in sunder. 15 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men! 16 For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut through bars of iron.
  • Ps 136:25 : 25 Who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.
  • Ps 142:7 : 7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me. A Psalm by David.
  • Ps 145:15-16 : 15 The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season. 16 You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
  • Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court; 23 for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
  • Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless: 11 for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
  • Isa 9:4 : 4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.
  • Ps 72:4 : 4 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
  • Ps 9:16 : 16 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
  • Ps 10:14-15 : 14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless. 15 Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
  • Ps 10:18 : 18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."

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    6Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

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    8Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

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  • Deut 10:18
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    18He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

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    20to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

  • Isa 42:7
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    7to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

  • Ps 69:33
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    33For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn't despise his captive people.

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    15He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

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    6who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

  • Ps 10:18
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    18to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.

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    4He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

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    9Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy."

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    14Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

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    16You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

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    5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

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    7You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

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    17who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"

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    9For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

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    14The captive exile shall speedily be freed; and he shall not die [and go down] into the pit, neither shall his bread fail.

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    31For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.

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    11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

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    7Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

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    8He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

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    12I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

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    13Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

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    4Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

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    7He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

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    14The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

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    16neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

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    3Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

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    19to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.

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    7He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

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    2He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

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