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 147:6Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.
• Deut 10:18–19He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
• 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.
• Exod 22:21–22“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
• Prov 15:25Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.
• Jer 49:11Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”
• Jas 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
• Prov 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
• Ps 83:13–17My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.
• Ps 145:20Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.
• Esth 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
• 2 Sam 17:23When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
• Esth 9:25but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on 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 with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
• Hos 14:3Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
• Ps 18:26With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
• Job 5:12–14He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
• Deut 16:11You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
• 2 Sam 15:31Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
• Esth 5:14Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

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