Psalm 146:8

Praise To Yahweh For His Help

⁷ vindicates the oppressed, and gives food to the hungry. The Lord releases the imprisoned. ⁸ The Lord gives sight to the blind. The Lord lifts up all who are bent over. The Lord loves the godly. ⁹ The Lord protects those residing outside their native land; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.

Lord Loves the Righteous

Upright in Heart

Jehovah

Matthew 9:30

And their eyes were opened. Then Jesus sternly warned them, "See that no one knows about this."

Psalm 11:7

Certainly the Lord is just; he rewards godly deeds; the upright will experience his favor.

Psalm 145:14

The Lord supports all who fall, and lifts up all who are bent over.

Psalm 147:6

The Lord lifts up the oppressed, but knocks the wicked to the ground.

Deuteronomy 33:3

Surely he loves the people; all your holy ones are in your power. And they sit at your feet, each receiving your words.

Isaiah 35:5

Then blind eyes will open, deaf ears will hear.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.

Isaiah 42:18

"Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!

Matthew 11:5

The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

Luke 13:11-13

and a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten herself up completely.

Luke 18:41-42

"What do you want me to do for you?" He replied, "Lord, let me see again."

John 9:7-33

and said to him, "Go wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "sent"). So the blind man went away and washed, and came back seeing.

John 14:21-23

The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him."

John 16:27

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

2 Corinthians 7:6

But God, who encourages the downhearted, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.

Ephesians 1:18

-- since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened -- so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.