Psalms 146:9

God protects foreigners, the fatherless, and widows, but frustrates the way of the wicked. He defends the vulnerable and overturns evil.

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• Ps 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
• Ps 147:6The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.
• Deut 10:18–19He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
• 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.
• Exod 22:21–22You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
• Prov 15:25The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.
• Jer 49:11Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
• Jas 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
• Prov 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
• Ps 83:13–17Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
• Ps 145:20The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
• Esth 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
• 2 Sam 17:23When 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 affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.
• Esth 9:25But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
• 1 Cor 3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
• Hos 14:3Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
• Ps 18:26to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
• Job 5:12–14He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
• Deut 16:11and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
• 2 Sam 15:31Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”
• Esth 5:14His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.

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