Psalm 68:5

God's Majestic Power

⁴ Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Exalt the one who rides on the clouds! For the Lord is his name! Rejoice before him! ⁵ He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy palace. ⁶ God settles those who have been deserted in their own homes; he frees prisoners and grants them prosperity. But sinful rebels live in the desert.

Holy Place

Judge Of The Widows

No

Deuteronomy 10:18

who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.

Psalm 10:14

You have taken notice, for you always see one who inflicts pain and suffering. The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you; you deliver the fatherless.

Psalm 146:9

The Lord protects those residing outside their native land; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.

Deuteronomy 26:15

Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors -- a land flowing with milk and honey."

2 Chronicles 6:2

O Lord, I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently."

2 Chronicles 30:27

The priests and Levites got up and pronounced blessings on the people. The Lord responded favorably to them as their prayers reached his holy dwelling place in heaven.

Job 29:12-13

for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;

Job 31:16-17

If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Psalm 10:18

You defend the fatherless and oppressed, so that mere mortals may no longer terrorize them.

Psalm 33:14

From the place where he lives he looks carefully at all the earth's inhabitants.

Psalm 72:2

Then he will judge your people fairly, and your oppressed ones equitably.

Psalm 72:4

He will defend the oppressed among the people; he will deliver the children of the poor and crush the oppressor.

Psalm 82:3-4

Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering!

Isaiah 1:23

Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.

Isaiah 57:15

For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: "I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.

Isaiah 66:1

This is what the Lord says: "The heavens are my throne and the earth is my footstool. Where then is the house you will build for me? Where is the place where I will rest?

Jeremiah 5:28

That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.

Jeremiah 49:11

Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me."

Hosea 14:3

Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride warhorses. We will never again say, 'Our gods' to what our own hands have made. For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!"

Luke 18:2-7

He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people.

Acts 7:48-49

Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says,

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children