"The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down."
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Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.
Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert.
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.