Psalm 146:9

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Summary

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

Preserveth

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Preserveth

He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation.

but doeth right unto the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.

And rejoice before the LORD thy God: both thou, thy son, thy daughter, thy servant and thy maid, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to make his name dwell there.

The LORD will break down the house of the proud; but he shall make fast the borders of the widow.

Thou shalt leave thy fatherless children behind thee, and I will keep them, and thy widows shall take their comfort in me.

Assyria shall not save us, neither will we ride on horses: neither will we say to the works of our own hands, 'Ye are our Gods,' for thou hast compassion on the friendless.

I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.