Verse 9

The Lord keepeth the strangers: he relieueth the fatherlesse & widowe: but he ouerthroweth the way of the wicked.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 68:5 : 5 He is a Father of the fatherlesse, & a Iudge of the widowes, euen God in his holy habitation.
  • Ps 147:6 : 6 The Lord relieueth the meeke, and abaseth the wicked to the ground.
  • Jer 49:11 : 11 Leaue thy fathers children, and I will preserue them aliue, and let thy widowes trust in me.
  • Hos 14:3 : 3 (14:4) Asshur shal not saue vs, neither wil we ride vpon horses, neither will we say any more to the worke of our handes, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherlesse findeth mercie.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come neere to you to iudgement, and I will be a swift witnesse against the southsayers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that wrongfully keepe backe the hirelings wages, and vexe the widowe, and the fatherlesse, and oppresse the stranger, and feare not me, sayth the Lord of hostes.
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdome of this worlde is foolishnesse with God: for it is written, He catcheth the wise in their owne craftinesse.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion & vndefiled before God, euen the Father, is this, to visite the fatherlesse, and widdowes in their aduersitie, and to keepe himselfe vnspotted of the world.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.
  • Prov 15:25 : 25 The Lorde will destroye the house of the proude men: but hee will stablish the borders of the widowe.
  • Ps 83:13-17 : 13 O my God, make them like vnto a wheele, and as the stubble before the winde. 14 As the fire burneth the forest, and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire: 15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraide with thy storme. 16 Fill their faces with shame, that they may seeke thy Name, O Lord. 17 Let them be confounded and troubled for euer: yea, let them be put to shame and perish,
  • Ps 145:20 : 20 The Lorde preserueth all them that loue him: but he will destroy all the wicked.
  • Exod 22:21-22 : 21 Moreouer, thou shalt not do iniurie to a stranger, neither oppresse him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22 Ye shall not trouble any widowe, nor fatherlesse childe.
  • Deut 10:18-19 : 18 Who doeth right vnto the fatherlesse and widowe, & loueth the stranger, giuing him foode and rayment. 19 Loue ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 And thou shalt reioyce before the Lord thy God, thou and thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy seruant, and thy maide, and the Leuite that is within thy gates, & the stranger, & the fatherles, and the widowe, that are among you, in the place which the Lorde thy God shall chuse to place his Name there,
  • 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 Then one tolde Dauid, saying, Ahithophel is one of them that haue cospired with Absalom: and Dauid sayde, O Lorde, I pray thee, turne the counsell of Ahithophel into foolishnesse.
  • 2 Sam 17:23 : 23 Nowe when Ahithophel sawe that his counsell was not followed, he sadled his asse, and arose, and he went home vnto his citie, and put his houshold in order, & hanged him selfe, and dyed, and was buryed in his fathers graue.
  • Esth 5:14 : 14 Then sayde Zeresh his wife and all his friends vnto him, Let them make a tree of fiftie cubites hie, and to morowe speake thou vnto the King, that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then shalt thou goe ioyfully with the King vnto the banket; the thing pleased Haman, and he caused to make the tree.
  • Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the tree, that he had prepared for Mordecai: then was the Kings wrath pacified.
  • Esth 9:25 : 25 And when she came before the King, he commanded by letters, Let this wicked deuise (which he imagined against the Iewes) turne vpon his owne head, and let them hang him and his sonnes on the tree.
  • Job 5:12-14 : 12 He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise. 13 He taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish. 14 They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night.
  • Ps 18:26 : 26 With the pure thou wilt shewe thy selfe pure, and with the froward thou wilt shewe thy selfe froward.