Psalm 140:12

English Standard Version 2016

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.

Cross References

Psalm 9:4

For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

1 Kings 8:49

then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause

1 Kings 8:45

then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.

Matthew 11:5

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

Jeremiah 22:16

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the Lord.

Psalm 102:17

he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer.

Psalm 35:10

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?”

Isaiah 11:4

but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate,

Psalm 72:4

May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!

Psalm 22:24

For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.

Psalm 12:3

May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,

Psalm 12:4

those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?”