Psalm 72:4

A Prayer For The King

³ Let [the] mountains yield prosperity for the people, and [the] hills in righteousness. ⁴ May he provide justice [for the] poor of [the] people, save [the] children of [the] needy, and crush [the] oppressor. ⁵ May he live long {while the sun endures} {as long as the moon} {for all generations}.

Cause of the Poor

Justice to the Afflicted

Isaiah 11:4

But he shall judge [the] poor with righteousness, and he shall decide for [the] needy of [the] earth with rectitude. And he shall strike [the] earth with the rod of his mouth, and he shall kill [the] wicked person with the breath of his lips.

Job 19:2

"{How long} will you torment me and crush me with words?

Job 34:24

He shatters the mighty without investigation, and he sets others in their place.

Psalm 2:9

You will break them with an iron rod. Like a potter's vessel you will shatter them."

Psalm 72:12-14

Indeed he will deliver [the] needy [who is] crying for help, and [the] afflicted [who] has no helper.

Psalm 94:5

They crush your people, O Yahweh; they oppress your inheritance.

Psalm 109:31

for he stands at [the] right [hand] of [the] needy, to save [him] from those judging his life.

Proverbs 20:26

A wise king winnows the wicked, and he will drive a wheel over them.

Isaiah 9:4

For you have shattered the yoke of its burden and the stick of its shoulder, the rod of its oppressor, on the day of Midian.

Isaiah 51:12-13

"I, I [am] he who comforts you; who [are] you that you are afraid of man? He dies! And of [the] son of humankind? He is {sacrificed} [as] grass!

Jeremiah 51:20-23

[He says], "You [are] a war club for me, a weapon of battle, and I smash nations with you, and I destroy kingdoms with you.

Ezekiel 34:15-16

{I myself} will feed my flock and {I myself} will allow them to lie down," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

Daniel 2:34-35

You were looking on {until} a stone was chiseled out--that not by hands--and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and it broke them in pieces.

Zechariah 9:8-10

But I will encamp at my temple [like a] guard, against those crossing through and returning; no oppressor will cross through them again, for now I have seen with my [own] eyes.

Zechariah 11:7

And I shepherded the flock [doomed] to slaughter, even the afflicted of the flock. I took two staffs, one I called Kindness, and the other I called Unity, and I shepherded the flock.

Zechariah 11:11

And it was broken on that day. Then the afflicted of the flock, the [ones who were] watching me, knew that it [was] the word of Yahweh.

Matthew 11:5

the blind receive sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised, and the poor have good news announced to [them].

Revelation 18:6-8

Pay back to her as she herself also paid out, and {pay back double} according to her deeds; in the cup that she mixed, mix double for her.

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, heaven and the saints and the apostles and the prophets, because God has pronounced your judgment on her!"

Revelation 18:24

And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints and all those who had been slaughtered on the earth.

Revelation 19:2

because his judgments [are] true and righteous, because he has passed judgment on the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and has avenged the blood of his slaves {shed by} her hand!"