Psalms 146:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,”
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“He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:”
King James Version · Public Domain“Who executeth justice for the oppressed; Who giveth food to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Doing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 146:7 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 9:16The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
- Psalms 10:14But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
- Psalms 10:18to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
- Psalms 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
- Psalms 35:10All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”
- Psalms 68:6God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
- Psalms 68:7O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the wasteland, Selah
- Psalms 72:4May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.
- Psalms 103:6The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.
- Psalms 105:17He sent a man before them— Joseph, sold as a slave.
- Psalms 107:9For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
- Psalms 107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.
- Psalms 136:25He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever.
- Psalms 142:7Free my soul from prison, that I may praise Your name. The righteous will gather around me because of Your goodness to me.
- Psalms 145:15The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.
- Proverbs 22:22Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
- Proverbs 23:10Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
- Isaiah 9:4For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.
- Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
- Jeremiah 31:14I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,” declares the LORD.
- Zechariah 9:11As for you,because of the blood of My covenant,I will release your prisonersfrom the waterless pit.
- Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
- Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
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