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 49:11Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
• Ps 10:14Thou 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 82:3–4Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
• Deut 10:18He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
• Jer 5:28They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
• Ps 146:9The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
• 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.
• Luke 18:2–7Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:
• Isa 1:23Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
• Isa 57:15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
• 2 Chr 6:2But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.
• Ps 10:18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
• Ps 72:2He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
• 2 Chr 30:27Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.
• Isa 66:1Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
• Job 31:16–17If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
• Job 29:12–13Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
• Eph 5:1Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
• Ps 33:14From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
• Hos 14:3Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
• Acts 7:48–49Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
• Deut 26:15Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

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