The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.
“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.
who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?
For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.
Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.
May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!
Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,
All my bones shall say, “O Lord, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?”
And the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’