Psalm 72:4

Easy To Read Version

Let the king be fair to the poor people.\par Let him help the helpless.\par Let him punish the people who hurt them.\par

Cross References

Job 19:2

“How long will you hurt me\par and break me with words?\par

Job 34:24

If even powerful people do bad things\par God does not need to ask questions.\par God will simply destroy those people,\par and choose other people to be leaders.\par

Psalm 109:31

Why? Because the Lord stands by\par helpless people.\par God saves them from other people\par who try to condemn them to death.\par

Psalm 2:9

You could destroy those nations like\par an iron rod shattering a clay pot. {\cf2\super [5]} ”\par

Psalm 94:5

Lord, they hurt your people.\par They made your people suffer.\par

Proverbs 20:26

A wise king will decide which people are evil. And that king will punish those people.

Isaiah 42:1

“Look at my Servant!\par I support him.\par He is the one I chose.\par And I am very pleased with him.\par I put my Spirit in him.\par He will judge the nations fairly.\par

Isaiah 42:3

\{He will be gentle.\}\par He will not break even a crushed reed. {\cf2\super [381]} \par He will not put out even a weak flame.\par He will judge fairly and find the truth.\par

Isaiah 9:4

Why? Because you will take away the heavy burden. You will take away the heavy pole on the people’s backs. You will take away the rod that the enemy uses to punish your people. This will be like the time you defeated Midian. {\cf2\super [107]}

Zechariah 11:11

So that day, the Agreement was finished. And those poor sheep watching me knew that this message was from the Lord.

Zechariah 11:7

So I took care of the sheep that had been raised to be killed—those poor sheep. I found two sticks. I called one stick Favor, and I called the other stick Union. Then I began caring for the sheep.

Matthew 11:5

Blind people are able to see again; crippled people are able to walk again; people that have leprosy {\cf2\super [131]} are healed; deaf people can hear again; dead people are raised from death; and the Good News {\cf2\super [132]} is told to the poor people.

Revelation 18:20

Be happy because of this, O heaven!\par Be happy, God’s holy people {\cf2\super [134]} and apostles {\cf2\super [135]} and prophets {\cf2\super [136]} !\par God has punished her because of the things she did to you.’”\par

Revelation 18:24

She (Babylon) is guilty\par of the blood (death) of the prophets, {\cf2\super [142]} \par of God’s holy people, {\cf2\super [143]} and of all the people who have been killed on earth.”\par

Revelation 19:2

His judgments are true and right.\par Our God has punished the prostitute. {\cf2\super [144]} \par She is the one who made the earth evil\par with her sexual sin.\par God has punished the prostitute\par to pay her for the blood (death)\par of his servants.”\par