Psalm 146:9

The LORD stands guard over the stranger; he supports both widows and orphans, but makes the path of the wicked slippery.

Psalm 68:5

A father to orphans and an advocate for widows is God in his holy dwelling place.

Psalm 147:6

The LORD supports the afflicted while he casts the wicked to the ground.

Exodus 22:21-22

"You are not to wrong or oppress an alien, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 10:18-19

He executes justice for the orphan and the widows, loves the foreigner, and gives them food and clothing."

Deuteronomy 16:11

Rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God with your son, daughter, male and female slaves, the descendants of Levi who is in your city, the stranger, the orphan, and the widow among you, at the place where the LORD your God will choose to establish his name.

2 Samuel 15:31

Just then, someone told David, "Ahithophel is one of Absalom's conspirators!" So David prayed, "LORD, please turn Ahithophel's counsel into foolishness."

2 Samuel 17:23

Meanwhile, when Ahithophel observed that his counsel was not being acted upon, he saddled his donkey, got up, and left for his hometown. Leaving behind a set of orders for his household, he hanged himself. After his death he was buried in his father's tomb.

Esther 5:14

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said, "Have a pole made 50 cubits high, and then in the morning speak to the king and have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go with the king to the banquet happy." This advice pleased Haman, and he had the pole made.

Esther 7:10

The king said, "Hang him on it." So they hanged Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai, and then the king's anger subsided.

Esther 9:25

But when Esther came before the king, he ordered through a letter that the evil plot that Haman had devised against the Jewish people be rescinded, and that he and his sons be hanged on poles.

Job 5:12-14

He frustrates the plans of the crafty; so that what they work for never succeeds.

Psalm 18:26

to the pure, you show yourself pure, and to the morally corrupt, you appear to be perverse.

Psalm 83:13-17

God, set them up like dried thistles, like straw before the wind.

Psalm 145:20

The LORD preserves everyone who loves him, but he will destroy all of the wicked.

Proverbs 4:19

But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness, and they do not know what they are stumbling over.

Proverbs 15:25

The house of the proud the LORD will demolish, but he will protect the widow's boundary line.

Jeremiah 49:11

Leave your orphans. I'll keep them alive. Let your widows trust in me."

Hosea 14:3

Assyria won't save us; we won't be riding on horses, Nor will we be saying anymore to the work of our hands, "You are our God." Indeed, in you the orphan finds mercy.'

Malachi 3:5

"I'll come near to you for judgment. I'll be a witness, quick to speak against sorcerers, against adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who defraud the laborer of his wage, against those who defraud the widow and the orphan, against those who deprive the alien of justice, and against those who don't fear me," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is nonsense in God's sight. For it is written, "He catches the wise with their own trickery,"

James 1:27

A religion that is pure and stainless according to God the Father is this: to take care of orphans and widows who are suffering, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Bible References

Preserveth

Psalm 68:5
A father to orphans and an advocate for widows is God in his holy dwelling place.
Deuteronomy 10:18
He executes justice for the orphan and the widows, loves the foreigner, and gives them food and clothing."
Deuteronomy 16:11
Rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God with your son, daughter, male and female slaves, the descendants of Levi who is in your city, the stranger, the orphan, and the widow among you, at the place where the LORD your God will choose to establish his name.
Proverbs 15:25
The house of the proud the LORD will demolish, but he will protect the widow's boundary line.
Jeremiah 49:11
Leave your orphans. I'll keep them alive. Let your widows trust in me."
Hosea 14:3
Assyria won't save us; we won't be riding on horses, Nor will we be saying anymore to the work of our hands, "You are our God." Indeed, in you the orphan finds mercy.'
Malachi 3:5
"I'll come near to you for judgment. I'll be a witness, quick to speak against sorcerers, against adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who defraud the laborer of his wage, against those who defraud the widow and the orphan, against those who deprive the alien of justice, and against those who don't fear me," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.
James 1:27
A religion that is pure and stainless according to God the Father is this: to take care of orphans and widows who are suffering, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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