Psalms 146:7

God brings justice to the oppressed, feeds the hungry, and frees prisoners. He is the deliverer of the afflicted and needy.

Cross-references · 25

• Ps 103:6The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.
• Ps 68:6God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
• Isa 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
• Prov 22:22–23Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
• Zech 9:11–12As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
• Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
• Ps 142:7Free my soul from prison, that I may praise Your name. The righteous will gather around me because of Your goodness to me.
• Ps 10:18to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
• Ps 107:9–10For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
• Jer 31:14I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,” declares the LORD.
• Ps 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
• Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
• Acts 16:26Suddenly a strong earthquake shook the foundations of the prison. At once all the doors flew open and everyone’s chains came loose.
• Acts 5:19But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out, saying,
• Prov 23:10–11Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
• Ps 136:25He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever.
• Ps 107:14–16He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.
• Luke 9:17They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
• Ps 145:15–16The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.
• Mal 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Ps 10:14–15But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
• Ps 105:17–20He sent a man before them—Joseph, sold as a slave.
• Isa 9:4For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.
• Ps 72:4May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.
• Ps 9:16The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah

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