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Psalms 146:9
Psalms 146:9 is verse 9 of Psalms chapter 146, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
King James Version
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
World English Bible
Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
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Psalms 146:7–10 · Berean Standard Bible
7 He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
8 the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
9 The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
10 The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Hallelujah!
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
Deuteronomy 10:18He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 10:19So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 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.
Proverbs 15:25The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.
Jeremiah 49:11Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
Hosea 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.”
Malachi 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.
James 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.
Psalms 18:26to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
Psalms 83:13Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
Psalms 83:14As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
Psalms 83:15so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
Psalms 83:16Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.
Psalms 83:17May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.
Psalms 145:20The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
Psalms 147:6The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.
2 Samuel 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!”
2 Samuel 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.
Esther 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.
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
Esther 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.
Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
Job 5:12He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
Job 5:13He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
Job 5:14They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
1 Corinthians 3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”