Psalms 140:12

World English Bible (2000)

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

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  • Ps 9:4 : 4 For you have maintained my just cause. You sit 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 Yahweh, 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 man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.
  • Ps 22:24 : 24 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
  • Ps 35:10 : 10 All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, 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 robs him?"
  • Ps 72:4 : 4 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
  • Ps 72:12-14 : 12 For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper. 13 He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy. 14 He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
  • Ps 102:17 : 17 He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
  • Prov 22:22 : 22 Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;
  • Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless: 11 for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
  • Isa 11:4 : 4 but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
  • Jer 22:16 : 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.
  • Matt 11:5 : 5 the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

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    3"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

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  • Prov 29:7
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    7The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.

  • Ps 12:5
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    5"Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."

  • Ps 41:1
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    1Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

  • Prov 31:8-9
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    8Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

    9Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy."

  • Ps 109:31
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    31For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul. A Psalm by David.

  • Ps 140:13
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    13Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The upright will dwell in your presence. A Psalm by David.

  • Jer 22:16
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    16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.

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

  • Job 36:6
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    6He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.

  • Ps 119:75
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    75Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

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

    18Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever.

  • Ps 72:12
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    12For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

  • Prov 22:22-23
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    22Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

    23for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

  • Ps 10:17-18
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    17Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

    18to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.

  • Amos 5:12
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    12For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

  • Ps 35:10
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    10All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, 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 robs him?"

  • Ps 72:2
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    2He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

  • Job 29:12
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    12Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,

  • Ps 9:18
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    18For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

  • Ps 72:4
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    4He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

  • Ps 14:6
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    6You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

  • Ps 34:19
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    19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

  • Job 34:28
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    28so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

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    6Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

  • Job 36:15
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    15He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

  • Ps 74:21
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    21Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

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    9Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

  • Jer 20:12-13
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    12But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.

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  • Job 13:18
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    18See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

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

    16So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

  • Zeph 3:12
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    12But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.

  • Jer 12:1
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    1You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

  • Ps 146:9
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    9Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

  • Ps 31:7
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    7I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6"You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Ps 10:14
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    14But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

  • Ps 34:17
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    17The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

  • Ps 9:4
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    4For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

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    6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

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  • Ps 55:22
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    22Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.