Psalm 146:9

Modern English Version

The Lord watches over the strangers; He relieves the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked He turns upside down.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:31

Now it was reported to David that Ahithophel was conspiring with Absalom, and David said, “O  Lord, make the advice of Ahithophel folly.”

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel realized that his advice was not followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his own city. He gave instruction to his household, then he hanged himself and died; he was interred in the tomb of his father.

Esther 5:14

Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends suggested to him, “Let a gallows fifty cubits tall be constructed, and in the morning ask the king if Mordecai can be hanged on it. Then go merrily with the king to the banquet.” And the suggestion pleased Haman, so he had the gallows constructed.

Esther 7:10

Then the king said, “Hang him on it!” So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

Esther 9:25

But when Esther came before the king, he ordered by letter that the wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Psalm 10:14

You have seen it, for You observe trouble and grief, to repay it with Your hand. The helpless commits himself to You; You are the helper of the orphan.

Psalm 145:20

The Lord preserves all those who love Him, but all the wicked will He destroy.

Psalm 147:6

The Lord lifts up the humble; He casts the wicked down to the ground.

Psalm 18:26

with the pure You will show Yourself pure; and with the crooked You will show Yourself shrewd.

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless and a protector of the widows is God in His holy habitation.

Proverbs 15:25

The Lord will destroy the house of the proud, but He will maintain the boundary of the widow.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.

Jeremiah 49:11

Leave your fatherless children behind. I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in Me.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria will not save us, we will not ride on horses. We will no longer say, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In You the orphan finds mercy.”

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who turn aside the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord of Hosts.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their own craftiness,”

Deuteronomy 16:11

You shall rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow who are among you—in the place where the Lord your God has chosen to place His name.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.