Psalm 146:9

New International Version

The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:31

Now David had been told, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David prayed, “Lord, turn Ahithophel’s counsel into foolishness.”

2 Samuel 17:23

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

Esther 5:14

His wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Have a pole set up, reaching to a height of fifty cubits, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai impaled on it. Then go with the king to the banquet and enjoy yourself.” This suggestion delighted Haman, and he had the pole set up.

Esther 7:10

So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai. Then the king’s fury subsided.

Esther 9:25

But when the plot came to the king’s attention, he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head, and that he and his sons should be impaled on poles.

Psalm 10:14

But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 145:20

The Lord watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

Psalm 147:6

The Lord sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground.

Psalm 18:26

to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.

Psalm 68:5

A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.

Proverbs 15:25

The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he sets the widow’s boundary stones in place.

Proverbs 4:19

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

Jeremiah 49:11

‘Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.’ ”

Hosea 14:3

Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount warhorses. We will never again say ‘Our gods’ to what our own hands have made, for in you the fatherless find compassion.”

Malachi 3:5

“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”;

Deuteronomy 16:11

And rejoice before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your towns, and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows living among you.

James 1:27

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.