Psalms 146:7 Cross References - BBE

⁷ Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;

¹⁶ The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. Higgaion. Selah.

¹⁴ You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father. ¹⁵ Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.

¹⁸ To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.

⁵ Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

⁶ Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.

⁴ May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.

⁶ The Lord gives decisions in righteousness for all who are in trouble.

¹⁷ He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was given as a servant for a price: ¹⁸ His feet were fixed in chains; his neck was put in iron bands; ¹⁹ Till the time when his word came true; he was tested by the word of the Lord. ²⁰ The king sent men to take off his chains; even the ruler of the people, who let him go free.

⁹ He gives its desire to the unresting soul, so that it is full of good things. ¹⁰ Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

¹⁴ He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken. ¹⁵ Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men! ¹⁶ The doors of brass are broken by his arm, and the bands of iron are cut in two.

²⁵ Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

⁷ Take my soul out of prison, so that I may give praise to your name: the upright will give praise because of me; for you have given me a full reward.

¹⁵ The eyes of all men are waiting for you; and you give them their food in its time. ¹⁶ By the opening of your hand, every living thing has its desire in full measure.

²² Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge: ²³ For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.

¹⁰ Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father; ¹¹ For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.

⁴ For by your hand the yoke on his neck and the rod on his back, even the rod of his cruel master, have been broken, as in the day of Midian.

¹ The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;

¹⁴ I will give the priests their desired fat things, and my people will have a full measure of my good things, says the Lord.

¹¹ And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water. ¹² And they will come back to you, O daughter of Zion, as prisoners of hope: today I say to you that I will give you back twice as much;

⁵ And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

⁵³ Those who had no food he made full of good things; the men of wealth he sent away with nothing in their hands;

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,

¹⁷ And they all took the food and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits which were over, twelve baskets full.

¹⁹ But in the night an angel of the Lord, opening the doors of the prison, took them out and said,

²⁶ And suddenly there was an earth-shock, so that the base of the prison was moved: and all the doors came open, and everyone's chains came off.