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 103:6Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.
• Ps 68:6God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
• Isa 61:1The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• Prov 22:22–23Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;
• Zech 9:11–12As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
• 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 heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
• Ps 142:7Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.
• Ps 10:18to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
• Ps 107:9–10For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.
• Jer 31:14I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.
• Ps 12:5“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
• Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.
• Acts 16:26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.
• Acts 5:19But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,
• Prov 23:10–11Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
• Ps 136:25Who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.
• Ps 107:14–16He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.
• Luke 9:17They ate, and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
• Ps 145:15–16The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.
• Mal 3:5I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
• Ps 10:14–15But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
• Ps 105:17–20He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
• Isa 9:4For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.
• Ps 72:4He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
• Ps 9:16Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.

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