Psalms 147:6

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Psalms 147:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 He determines the number of the stars; He calls them each by name.

5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.

6 The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.

7 Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make music on the harp to our God,

8 who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.

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Psalms 25:9

He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way.

Psalms 37:11

But the meek will inherit the land and delight in abundant prosperity.

Psalms 145:14

The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.

Psalms 146:8

the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.

Psalms 146:9

The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

Psalms 149:4

For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the afflicted with salvation.

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.

Matthew 5:5

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

James 4:10

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.

1 Peter 3:4

but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.

1 Peter 5:6

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.

Psalms 55:23

But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

Psalms 73:18

Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

Psalms 73:19

How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

2 Peter 2:5

if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;

2 Peter 2:6

if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

2 Peter 2:7

and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless

2 Peter 2:8

(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—

2 Peter 2:9

if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.