25 (A)The Lord will destroy the house of the proud,
But (B)He will establish the boundary of the widow.

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(A)The Lord watches over the strangers;
He relieves the fatherless and widow;
(B)But the way of the wicked He [a]turns upside down.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 146:9 Lit. makes crooked

11 (A)The house of the wicked will be overthrown,
But the tent of the upright will flourish.

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(A)The wicked are overthrown and are no more,
But the house of the righteous will stand.

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(A)A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
(B)God sets the solitary in families;
(C)He brings out those who are bound into prosperity;
But (D)the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

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10 Do not remove the ancient [a]landmark,
Nor enter the fields of the fatherless;

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:10 boundary

17 For the Lord your God is (A)God of gods and (B)Lord of lords, the great God, (C)mighty and awesome, who (D)shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. 18 (E)He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.

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27 (A)Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: (B)to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, (C)and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

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20 (A)But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

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12 For the day of the Lord of hosts
Shall come upon everything proud and lofty,
Upon everything lifted up—
And it shall be brought low—

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(A)Though the Lord is on high,
Yet (B)He regards the lowly;
But the proud He knows from afar.

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11 Disperse the rage of your wrath;
Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him.
12 Look on everyone who is (A)proud, and bring him low;
Tread down the wicked in their place.
13 Hide them in the dust together,
Bind their faces in hidden darkness.

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Submit to God, Resist the Devil

Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, (A)all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for

(B)“God resists the proud,
But (C)gives grace to the humble.”

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God shall likewise destroy you forever;
He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

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Property Boundaries

14 (A)“You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

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The End of the Wicked and the Peace of the Godly

To the Chief Musician. A [a]Contemplation of David (A)when Doeg the Edomite went and (B)told Saul, and said to him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.”

52 Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?
The goodness of God endures continually.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 52:1 Heb. Maschil

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