Psalm 146:9

Praise To Yahweh For His Help

⁸ The Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
The Lord raises up those who are oppressed.
The Lord loves the righteous.
⁹ The Lord protects foreigners
and helps the fatherless and the widow,
but He frustrates the ways of the wicked. ¹⁰ The Lord reigns forever;
Zion, your God reigns for all generations.
Hallelujah!

Fatherless and the Widow

Way of the Wicked

Jehovah

No

Psalm 68:5

God in His holy dwelling is
a father of the fatherless
and a champion of widows.

Psalm 147:6

The Lord helps the afflicted
but brings the wicked to the ground.

Exodus 22:21-22

“You must not exploit a foreign resident or oppress him, since you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 10:18-19

He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 16:11

Rejoice before Yahweh your God in the place where He chooses to have His name dwell—you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow among you.

2 Samuel 15:31

Then someone reported to David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.”

“Lord,” David pleaded, “please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He set his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.

Esther 5:14

His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows 75 feet high. Ask the king in the morning to hang Mordecai on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows constructed.

Esther 7:10

They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s anger subsided.

Esther 9:25

But when the matter was brought before the king, he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.

Job 5:12-14

He frustrates the schemes of the crafty
so that they achieve no success.

Psalm 18:26

with the pure
You prove Yourself pure,
but with the crooked
You prove Yourself shrewd.

Psalm 83:13-17

Make them like tumbleweed, my God,
like straw before the wind.

Psalm 145:20

The Lord guards all those who love Him,
but He destroys all the wicked.

Proverbs 4:19

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom;
they don’t know what makes them stumble.

Proverbs 15:25

The Lord destroys the house of the proud,
but He protects the widow’s territory.

Jeremiah 49:11

Abandon your fatherless; I will preserve them;
let your widows trust in Me.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria will not save us,
we will not ride on horses,
and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods!’
to the work of our hands.
For the fatherless receives compassion in You.”

Malachi 3:5

“I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the widow and the fatherless, and cheat the wage earner; and against those who deny justice to the foreigner. They do not fear Me,” says the Lord of Hosts.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written: He catches the wise in their craftiness;

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.