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 executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
• Ps 68:6God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
• Isa 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
• Prov 22:22–23Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
• Zech 9:11–12As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
• Luke 4:18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
• Ps 142:7Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
• Ps 10:18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
• Ps 107:9–10For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
• Jer 31:14And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.
• Ps 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
• Luke 1:53He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
• Acts 16:26And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.
• Acts 5:19But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,
• Prov 23:10–11Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
• Ps 136:25Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
• Ps 107:14–16He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
• Luke 9:17And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
• Ps 145:15–16The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
• Mal 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Ps 10:14–15Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
• Ps 105:17–20He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
• Isa 9:4For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
• Ps 72:4He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
• Ps 9:16The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

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