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 May he vindicate the afflicted of the people,
Save the children of the needy
And crush the oppressor.
⁵ They will fear you as long as the sun and moon endures, 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 fairness for the afflicted of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth (power of his words), and with the spirit (breath) of his lips he will destroy the wicked.

Job 19:2

How long will you torment me and depress me with words?

Job 34:24

He breaks mighty people into pieces without examining them and puts others in their places.

Psalm 2:9

You will rule them with an iron scepter. You will dash them to pieces like pottery!

Psalm 72:12-14

When he cries he will deliver the needy and the poor who have no helper.

Psalm 94:5

They crush your people, O Jehovah. They make those who belong to you suffer.

Psalm 109:31

He stands at the right hand of the needy people to save them from those who would condemn them to death.

Proverbs 20:26

A wise king sifts out the wicked. He rolls the threshing wheel over them.

Isaiah 9:4

As in the day of Midian's defeat, you have shattered the yoke of his burdens: the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor.

Isaiah 51:12-13

I, even I, am the one who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mortal men? The sons of men are like grass!

Jeremiah 51:20-23

He says: You are my war-club, my weapon of war. I shatter nations with you and with you I destroy kingdoms.

Ezekiel 34:15-16

I will feed my flock and I will lead them to rest, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Daniel 2:34-35

You watched while a stone was cut out without hands. It struck the statue upon its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

Zechariah 9:8-10

I will encamp about my house against the army. None will pass through or return. No oppressor will pass through them any more: for now I have seen with my eyes.

Zechariah 11:7

So I fed the poor of the flock of slaughter. I took two staffs; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.

Zechariah 11:11

It was broken in that day. In this way, the poor of the flock listened to me and knew that it was the word of Jehovah.

Matthew 11:5

The blind receive their sight. The lame walk! The lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear. The dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

Revelation 18:6-8

Render to her even as she rendered to you. Pay back double to her, double according to her works: in the cup that she has filled, fill double for her!

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God pronounced judgment for you against her.

Revelation 18:24

The blood of prophets, and of holy ones, and of all who were slain upon the earth was found in her.

Revelation 19:2

True and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great harlot, who corrupted the earth with her fornication. And has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.