Psalms 146:9
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The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
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A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.
“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.
The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.
Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
Pure 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.
The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
His 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.