Psalms 146:9 · KJV
“The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.”
— Psalms 146:9
The LORD openeth {the eyes of} the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
The LORD shall reign for ever, {even} thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms 146 — Context
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
8The LORD openeth {the eyes of} the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
9The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
10The LORD shall reign for ever, {even} thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
Cross References
Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, {is} God in his holy habitation.
Deuteronomy 10:18-19
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Psalms 147:6
The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.
Exodus 22:21-22
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in {his} wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger {from his right}, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. {oppress: or, defraud}
Proverbs 15:25
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Jeremiah 49:11
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve {them} alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, {and} to keep himself unspotted from the world.