The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.
You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers
Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morn
He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the
But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews
and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and
Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometo