Proverbs 31:9

The Oracle Of King Lemuel

⁸ Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death. ⁹ Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need. ¹⁰ Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.

Cause of the Poor

Justice for the Poor

Justice to the Afflicted

Poor and Needy

Rights Of The Poor

Leviticus 19:15

Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

Deuteronomy 1:16

And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.

Isaiah 1:17

Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

Deuteronomy 16:18-20

You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.

2 Samuel 8:15

And David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.

Job 29:12

For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.

Job 29:15-16

I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.

Psalm 58:1-2

Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?

Psalm 72:1-2

Give the king your authority, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son.

Proverbs 16:12

Evil-doing is disgusting to kings: for the seat of the ruler is based on righteousness.

Proverbs 20:8

A king on the seat of judging puts to flight all evil with his eyes.

Isaiah 1:23

Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

Isaiah 11:4

But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.

Isaiah 32:1-2

See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions.

Jeremiah 5:28

They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

Jeremiah 22:3

This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

Jeremiah 22:15-16

Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?

Jeremiah 23:5

See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land.

Daniel 4:27

For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.

Amos 5:11-12

So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

Zechariah 7:9

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:

Zechariah 9:9

Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.

John 7:24

Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.

Hebrews 1:9

You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil; and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head more than on the heads of those who are with you.

Revelation 19:11

And the heaven was open; and I saw a white horse, and he who was seated on it was named Certain and True; and he is judging and making war in righteousness.