Psalms 146:9
The LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
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In Context
10The LORD will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!
Cross References
Exodus 22:21“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 16:11You shall rejoice before the LORD your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
2 Samuel 17:23When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home to his city, set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.
Job 5:12He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
Psalms 18:26With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 146:6-10
Encouragement to Trust in God. 5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God: 6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever: 7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners: 8 The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous: 9 The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow:… Read the whole commentary →