Psalms 68:5

God is a father to the fatherless and defender of widows in His holy dwelling. It reveals God's tender care for the most vulnerable.

Cross-references · 22

• Jer 49:11Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
• Ps 10:14But 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 82:3–4Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
• Deut 10:18He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
• Jer 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
• Ps 146:9The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
• Ps 72:4May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.
• Luke 18:2–7“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men.
• Isa 1:23Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
• Isa 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
• 2 Chr 6:2and I have built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”
• Ps 10:18to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
• Ps 72:2May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.
• 2 Chr 30:27Then the priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard their voice, and their prayer came into His holy dwelling place in heaven.
• Isa 66:1This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?
• Job 31:16–17If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
• Job 29:12–13because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
• Eph 5:1Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
• Ps 33:14From His dwelling place He gazes on all who inhabit the earth.
• 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.”
• Acts 7:48–49However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:
• Deut 26:15Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey.”

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