Psalm 72:4

A Prayer For The King

³ The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness. ⁴ He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces. ⁵ They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

Cause of the Poor

Justice to the Afflicted

Isaiah 11:4

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.

Job 19:2

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

Job 34:24

He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.

Psalm 2:9

You shall rule them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."

Psalm 72:12-14

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Psalm 94:5

They break your people in pieces, LORD, and afflict your heritage.

Psalm 109:31

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

Proverbs 20:26

A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.

Isaiah 9:4

For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.

Isaiah 51:12-13

"I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;

Jeremiah 51:20-23

"You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;

Ezekiel 34:15-16

I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down," says the Lord GOD.

Daniel 2:34-35

You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

Zechariah 9:8-10

I will encamp around my house against the army, that none pass through or return; and no oppressor will pass through them any more: for now I have seen with my eyes.

Zechariah 11:7

So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called "Favor," and the other I called "Union," and I fed the flock.

Zechariah 11:11

It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the word of the LORD.

Matthew 11:5

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.

Revelation 18:6-8

Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.

Revelation 18:20

"Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her."

Revelation 18:24

In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth."

Revelation 19:2

for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."