Psalms 140:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

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  • Ps 9:4 : 4 For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat on the throne judging righteously.
  • 1 Kgs 8:45 : 45 Then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
  • 1 Kgs 8:49 : 49 Then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven your dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
  • Ps 10:17-18 : 17 LORD, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will prepare their heart; You will cause Your ear to hear, 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may oppress no more.
  • Ps 22:24 : 24 For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; nor has He hidden His face from him; but when he cried to Him, He heard.
  • Ps 35:10 : 10 All my bones shall say, LORD, 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 plunders him?
  • Ps 72:4 : 4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall crush the oppressor.
  • Ps 72:12-14 : 12 For he shall deliver the needy when he cries, the poor also, and him who has no helper. 13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the lives of the needy. 14 He shall redeem their lives from deceit and violence, and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
  • Ps 102:17 : 17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute and not despise their prayer.
  • Prov 22:22 : 22 Do not rob the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;
  • Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Do not remove the ancient landmark, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless: 11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
  • Isa 11:4 : 4 But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.
  • Jer 22:16 : 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD.
  • Matt 11:5 : 5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

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  • Ps 82:3-4
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    3 Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.

    4 Deliver the poor and needy; rescue them from the hand of the wicked.

  • Prov 29:7
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    7 The righteous consider the cause of the poor; but the wicked do not understand to know it.

  • Ps 12:5
    76%

    5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him who puffs at him.

  • Ps 41:1
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    1 Blessed is he who considers the poor; the LORD will deliver him in times of trouble.

  • Prov 31:8-9
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    75%

    8 Speak for those who cannot speak, in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

    9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

  • Ps 109:31
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    31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those who condemn his soul.

  • Ps 140:13
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    13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name; the upright shall dwell in your presence.

  • Jer 22:16
    74%

    16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD.

  • Prov 29:14
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    14 The king who judges the poor with truth, his throne shall be established forever.

  • Job 36:6
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    6 He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the poor.

  • Ps 119:75
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    75 I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

  • Ps 37:17-18
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    17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.

    18 The LORD knows the days of the upright, and their inheritance shall be forever.

  • Ps 72:12
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    12 For he shall deliver the needy when he cries, the poor also, and him who has no helper.

  • Prov 22:22-23
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    73%

    22 Do not rob the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;

    23 For the LORD will plead their cause and plunder the soul of those who plunder them.

  • Ps 10:17-18
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    73%

    17 LORD, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will prepare their heart; You will cause Your ear to hear,

    18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may oppress no more.

  • Amos 5:12
    73%

    12 For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

  • Ps 35:10
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    10 All my bones shall say, LORD, 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 plunders him?

  • Ps 72:2
    73%

    2 He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

  • Job 29:12
    73%

    12 Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless, and the one who had no helper.

  • Ps 9:18
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    18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten; the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.

  • Ps 72:4
    73%

    4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall crush the oppressor.

  • Ps 14:6
    72%

    6 You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

  • Ps 34:19
    72%

    19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

  • Job 34:28
    72%

    28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to Him, and He hears the cry of the afflicted.

  • Ps 103:6
    72%

    6 The LORD executes righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

  • Job 36:15
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    15 He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.

  • Ps 74:21
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    21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise Your name.

  • Ps 9:9
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    9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

  • Jer 20:12-13
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    12 But, O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, and sees the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for to you have I opened my cause.

    13 Sing to the LORD, praise the LORD: for he has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

  • Job 13:18
    72%

    18 Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be justified.

  • Job 5:15-16
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    15 But he saves the needy from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

    16 So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

  • Zeph 3:12
    72%

    12 I will also leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.

  • Jer 12:1
    72%

    1 Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal very treacherously?

  • Ps 146:9
    71%

    9 The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

  • Ps 31:7
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    7 I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;

  • Exod 23:6
    71%

    6 You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute.

  • Ps 10:14
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    14 You have seen it; for You behold mischief and spite, to repay it with Your hand; the poor commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

  • Ps 34:17
    71%

    17 The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

  • Ps 9:4
    71%

    4 For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat on the throne judging righteously.

  • Isa 10:2
    71%

    2 To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • Ps 1:6
    70%

    6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

  • Ps 58:11
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    11 So that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: truly he is a God who judges in the earth.

  • Ps 55:22
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    22 Cast your burden upon the LORD, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.

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