Psalm 146:9

Legacy Standard Bible

Yahweh keeps the sojourners; He helps up the orphan and the widow, But He bends the way of the wicked.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:31

Now David informed them, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Yahweh, I pray, make the counsel of Ahithophel foolishness.”

2 Samuel 17:23

Now Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed. So he saddled his donkey and arose and went to his home, to his city, and set his house in order, and strangled himself; thus he died and was buried in the grave of his father.

Esther 5:14

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Have a gallows fifty cubits high made and in the morning say to the king that Mordecai should be hanged on it; then go gladly with the king to the feast.” And the word was good to Haman, so he had the gallows made.

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had set up for Mordecai, and the king’s wrath subsided.

Esther 9:25

But when it came before the king, he said by letter that his evil scheme, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Psalm 10:14

You have seen it, for You have beheld mischief and vexation to take it into Your hand. The unfortunate commits himself to You; You have been the helper of the orphan.

Psalm 145:20

Yahweh keeps all who love Him, But all the wicked He will destroy.

Psalm 147:6

Yahweh helps up the afflicted; He brings down the wicked to the ground.

Psalm 18:26

With the pure You show Yourself pure, And with the crooked You show Yourself astute.

Psalm 68:5

¶A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows, Is God in His holy habitation.

Proverbs 15:25

Yahweh will tear down the house of the proud, But He will cause the boundary of the widow to stand.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like thick darkness; They do not know over what they stumble.

Jeremiah 49:11

“Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive; And let your widows trust in Me.”

Hosea 14:3

“Assyria will not save us; We will not ride on horses, Nor will we say again, ‘Our god,’ To the work of our hands; For in You the orphan finds compassion.”

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the sojourner and do not fear Me,” says Yahweh of hosts.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness”;

Deuteronomy 16:11

and you shall be glad before Yahweh your God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female slaves and the Levite who is within your gates and the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst, in the place where Yahweh your God chooses for His name to dwell.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.