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Psa. 146:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The Lord preserveth the strangers; hep relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked heq turneth upside down.

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Prov. 15:25• ²⁵Jehovah plucketh up the house of the proud,{HR}But He establisheth the border of the widow. (Prov. 15:25)

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Job 5:12‑13• ¹²He breaketh to pieces the devices of the crafty,{HR}So that they can do nothing to purpose;
¹³He taketh the wise in their craftiness,{HR}And the counsel of the cunning is overturned. (Job 5:12‑13)

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Prov. 4:19• ¹⁹The way of the wicked [is] as darkness:{HR}They know not at what they stumble. (Prov. 4:19)

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Psa. 68:5• ⁵A father of orphans and a judge of widows{HR}[Is] God in the habitation of his holiness. (Psa. 68:5)

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Deut. 10:18‑19• ¹⁸who executeth the judgment of the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and clothing.
¹⁹And ye shall love the stranger; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt. (Deut. 10:18‑19)

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Deut. 16:11• ¹¹and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is in thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you in the place that Jehovah thy God will choose to cause his name to dwell there. (Deut. 16:11)

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Prov. 15:25• ²⁵Jehovah plucketh up the house of the proud,{HR}But He establisheth the border of the widow. (Prov. 15:25)

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Jer. 49:11• ¹¹Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me. (Jer. 49:11)

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Hos. 14:3• ³Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say anymore to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. (Hos. 14:3)

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Mal. 3:5• ⁵And 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 Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 3:5)

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James 1:27• ²⁷A religious service pure and undefiled before him that is God and Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep himself unspotted from the world. (James 1:27)

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Psa. 18:26• ²⁶With the pure thou showest thyself pure,{HR}And with the perverse thou showest thyself perverse. (Psa. 18:26)

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Psa. 83:13‑17• ¹³O my God, make them as the whirling thing,{HR}As stubble before the wind.
¹⁴As fire will burn a forest,{HR}And as a flame will set mountains on fire,
¹⁵So pursue them with thy tempest{HR}And with thy whirlwind trouble them.
¹⁶Fill their faces with shame,{HR}That [and] they will seek thy name, O Jehovah.
¹⁷They shall be ashamed and dismayed forever,{HR}And they shall be confounded and perish. (Psa. 83:13‑17)

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Psa. 145:20• ²⁰Jehovah keepeth all that love him,{HR}And all the wicked he will destroy. (Psa. 145:20)

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Psa. 147:6• ⁶Jehovah lifteth up the humble;{HR}He casteth down the wicked to the earth. (Psa. 147:6)

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2 Sam. 15:31• ³¹And one told David saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. Then said David, O Jehovah, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness. (2 Sam. 15:31)

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2 Sam. 17:23• ²³And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father. (2 Sam. 17:23)

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Esther 5:14• ¹⁴Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman: and he caused the gallows to be made. (Esther 5:14)

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Esther 7:10• ¹⁰So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified. (Esther 7:10)

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Esther 9:25• ²⁵but when it came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head; and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. (Esther 9:25)

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Prov. 4:19• ¹⁹The way of the wicked [is] as darkness:{HR}They know not at what they stumble. (Prov. 4:19)

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Job 5:12‑14• ¹²He breaketh to pieces the devices of the crafty,{HR}So that they can do nothing to purpose;
¹³He taketh the wise in their craftiness,{HR}And the counsel of the cunning is overturned.
¹⁴By day they run against darkness,{HR}And as in the night they grope at noon-day. (Job 5:12‑14)

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1 Cor. 3:19• ¹⁹For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness; (1 Cor. 3:19)

• The stranger whose heart may feel sick where he is, the fatherless or widow whose sustaining props are gone, He preserves and relieves. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 146-150” by J.N. Darby)

• He is a compassionate God that has pity on the defenseless,― the stranger, the fatherless and the widow. He is a holy God that deals with the wicked. (“Psalm 146” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Jehovah preservethd the strangers; he lifteth upe the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvertf.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "keepeth," as Ps. 145.20.

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Or "upholdeth."

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Properly "make tortuous."

W. Kelly Translation

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Jehovah keepeth strangers;{HR}Orphans and widows he upholdeth;{HR}And the way of wicked ones he maketh crooked.