Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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Exodus 10:17
Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”
Exodus 10:18
Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.
Exodus 27:19
All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of bronze.
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Numbers 27:6
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 27:7
“The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.
Numbers 36:1
The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel.
Numbers 36:2
They said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
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Deuteronomy 10:17
For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.
Deuteronomy 10:19
Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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Deuteronomy 16:14
You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.
Deuteronomy 24:7
If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 24:19
When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 24:20
When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:21
When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 26:12
When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.
Deuteronomy 26:13
You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Job 24:9
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
Job 24:21
He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
Job 31:17
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
Job 31:18
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);
Matthew 23:14
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
Mark 12:40
those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”
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1 Samuel 24:12
May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.
1 Samuel 24:15
May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”
1 Samuel 25:39
When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.
Psalms 35:1
Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
Psalms 43:1
Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
Psalms 54:1
Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.
Proverbs 22:23
for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
Jeremiah 50:34
Their Redeemer is strong. Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jeremiah 51:36
Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
Micah 7:9
I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.
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Job 23:13
But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.
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Job 31:40
let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
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Esther 2:7
He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
Psalms 10:15
Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
Psalms 10:16
Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
Psalms 10:17
Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
Psalms 12:5
“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
Psalms 27:10
When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.
Psalms 35:10
All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”
Psalms 72:12
For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.
Psalms 72:13
He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.
Psalms 82:4
Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
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Psalms 68:2
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
Psalms 78:65
Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
Isaiah 42:13
Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.
Isaiah 42:14
“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
Isaiah 42:15
I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
Isaiah 51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
Isaiah 57:5
you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
Jeremiah 25:30
“Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and tell them, “ ‘Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation. He will mightily roar against his fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
Zephaniah 3:8
“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
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Psalms 103:6
Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.
Psalms 103:7
He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.
Psalms 103:13
Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
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Psalms 47:7
For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.
Psalms 109:9
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Psalms 109:16
because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.
Psalms 109:31
For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.
Psalms 146:8
Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Isaiah 3:15
What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
Luke 23:43
Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
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1 Kings 8:27
But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
2 Chronicles 6:2
But I have built you a house and home, a place for you to dwell in forever.”
Psalms 33:14
From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
Psalms 68:33
to him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
Psalms 113:4
Yahweh is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.
Psalms 113:5
Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,
Psalms 113:6
who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?
Psalms 115:3
But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.
Psalms 123:1
I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.
Acts 7:48
However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
Acts 7:49
‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord. ‘Or what is the place of my rest?
1 Timothy 6:16
He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen nor can see, to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
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Psalms 22:3
But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel.
Psalms 55:19
God, who is enthroned forever, will hear and answer them. Selah.They never change and don’t fear God.
Psalms 90:1
Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
Proverbs 14:26
In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.
Isaiah 26:4
Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.
Isaiah 26:20
Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
Isaiah 26:21
For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
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Song of Solomon 3:6
Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?
Isaiah 40:3
The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
Hosea 1:11
The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.
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Isaiah 54:4
“Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth. You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more.
Lamentations 1:1
How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave!
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Ezekiel 22:31
Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way on their heads,” says the Lord Yahweh.
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Hosea 14:8
Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”
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Luke 2:37
and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.
Luke 7:12
Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only born son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.
Luke 18:1
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray and not give up,
Acts 6:1
Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
Acts 9:39
Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the tunics and other garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
1 Timothy 5:3
Honor widows who are widows indeed.
1 Timothy 5:9
Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
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