Psalm 103:6

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Summary

Psalm 103:6

The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

Executeth

General references

Exodus 3:10

Psalm 119:137

Bible References

Executeth

And Jehovah is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.

Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave it, Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

Because of the spoiling of the poor, Because of the groaning of the needy, Now do I arise, saith Jehovah, I set in safety him who doth breathe for it.

He judgeth the poor of the people, Giveth deliverance to the sons of the needy, And bruiseth the oppressor.

For He standeth at the right hand of the needy, To save from those judging his soul.

Doing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry.

'Thou dost not oppress a hireling, poor and needy, of thy brethren or of thy sojourner who is in thy land within thy gates;

This is the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive.

An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.

Rob not the poor because he is poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.

Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,

That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased,

Is not this the fast that I chose -- To loose the bands of wickedness, To shake off the burdens of the yoke, And to send out the oppressed free, And every yoke ye draw off?

Sojourner, fatherless, and widow, ye oppress not, And innocent blood do not shed in this place, And after other gods do not walk, for evil to yourselves,

Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.

Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.

Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones,

and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;

Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you;

General references

and now, come, and I send thee unto Pharaoh, and bring thou out My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.'

Tzade. Righteous art Thou, O Jehovah, And upright are Thy judgments.