Psalm 146:9

Modern King James Version

Jehovah preserves the strangers; He relieves the orphan and widow, but the way of the wicked He turns upside down.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:31

And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray You, turn the advice of Ahithophel to foolishness.

2 Samuel 17:23

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, even he saddled the ass and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order. And he hanged himself and died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Esther 5:14

And Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, Make a wooden gallows, fifty cubits high and tomorrow speak to the king that Mordecai may be hanged on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman, and he caused the wooden gallows to be made.

Esther 7:10

And they hanged Haman on the wooden gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath lay down.

Esther 9:25

But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plot which he had plotted against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the wooden gallows.

Psalm 10:14

You have seen it; for You behold mischief and vexation, to repay it with Your hand. The poor commits himself to You; You are the Helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 145:20

Jehovah watches over all those who love Him; but all the wicked He will destroy.

Psalm 147:6

Jehovah lifts up the meek; He throws 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 perverse.

Psalm 68:5

In His holy dwelling God is the father of the fatherless, and the judge of the widows.

Proverbs 15:25

Jehovah will destroy the house of the proud, but He will set up the border of the widow.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble.

Jeremiah 49:11

Leave your orphans; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in Me.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses. Nor shall we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods, for in You the fatherless finds mercy.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written, "He takes the wise in their own craftiness."

Deuteronomy 16:11

And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your slave girl, and the Levite inside your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, those among you, in the place which Jehovah your God has chosen to place His name there.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.