Psalm 146:9

Holman Christian Standard Bible

The Lord protects foreigners and helps the fatherless and the widow, but He frustrates the ways of the wicked.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:31

Then someone reported to David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” “Lord,” David pleaded, “please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness! ”

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He set his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.

Esther 5:14

His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows 75 feet high. Ask the king in the morning to hang Mordecai on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows constructed.

Esther 7:10

They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s anger subsided.

Esther 9:25

But when the matter was brought before the king, he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.

Psalm 10:14

But You Yourself have seen trouble and grief, observing it in order to take the matter into Your hands. The helpless entrusts himself to You; You are a helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 145:20

The Lord guards all those who love Him, but He destroys all the wicked.

Psalm 147:6

The Lord helps the afflicted but brings the wicked to the ground.

Psalm 18:26

with the pure You prove Yourself pure, but with the crooked You prove Yourself shrewd.

Psalm 68:5

God in His holy dwelling is a father of the fatherless and a champion of widows.

Proverbs 15:25

The Lord destroys the house of the proud, but He protects the widow’s territory.

Proverbs 4:19

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they don’t know what makes them stumble.

Jeremiah 49:11

Abandon your fatherless; I will preserve them; let your widows trust in Me.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria will not save us, we will not ride on horses, and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods! ’ to the work of our hands. For the fatherless receives compassion in You.”

Malachi 3:5

“I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the widow and the fatherless, and cheat the wage earner; and against those who deny justice to the foreigner. They do not fear Me,” says the Lord of Hosts.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written: He catches the wise in their craftiness;

Deuteronomy 16:11

Rejoice before Yahweh your God in the place where He chooses to have His name dwell — you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow among you.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.