Psalms 140:12
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 you 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.
- 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 shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he 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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9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, And serve justice to the poor and needy."
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31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from those who judge his soul.
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13 Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The upright will dwell in your presence.
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16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.
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14 The king who fairly judges the poor, His throne shall be established forever.
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17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, But Yahweh upholds the righteous.
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22 Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; And don't crush the needy in court;
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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.
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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?"
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2 He will judge your people with righteousness, And your poor with justice.
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12 Because I delivered the poor who cried, And the fatherless also, who had none to help him.
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4 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, And will break the oppressor in pieces.
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6 You frustrate the plan of the poor, Because Yahweh is his refuge.
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19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
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6 Yahweh executes righteous acts, And justice for all who are oppressed.
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4 For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.
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6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked shall perish.
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22 Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.