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 your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”
• Ps 10:14But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
• Ps 82:3–4“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
• Deut 10:18He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
• Jer 5:28They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t judge the right of the needy.
• Ps 146:9Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
• 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.
• Luke 18:2–7saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man.
• Isa 1:23Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
• Isa 57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
• 2 Chr 6:2But I have built you a house and home, a place for you to dwell in forever.”
• Ps 10:18to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
• Ps 72:2He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
• 2 Chr 30:27Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.
• Isa 66:1Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?
• Job 31:16–17“If 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 who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
• Eph 5:1Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
• Ps 33:14From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
• 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.”
• Acts 7:48–49However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
• Deut 26:15Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

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