Psalm 72:4

New English Translation

He will defend the oppressed among the people; he will deliver the children of the poor and crush the oppressor.

Cross References

Job 19:2

“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?

Job 34:24

He shatters the great without inquiry, and sets up others in their place.

Psalm 109:31

because he stands at the right hand of the needy, to deliver him from those who threaten his life.

Psalm 2:9

You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”

Psalm 94:5

O Lord, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you.

Proverbs 20:26

A wise king separates out the wicked; he turns the threshing wheel over them.

Isaiah 11:4

He will treat the poor fairly, and make right decisions for the downtrodden of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and order the wicked to be executed.

Isaiah 42:1

“Here is my servant whom I support, my chosen one in whom I take pleasure. I have placed my spirit on him; he will make just decrees for the nations.

Isaiah 42:3

A crushed reed he will not break, a dim wick he will not extinguish; he will faithfully make just decrees.

Isaiah 9:4

For their oppressive yoke and the club that strikes their shoulders, the cudgel the oppressor uses on them, you have shattered, as in the day of Midian’s defeat.

Zechariah 11:11

So it was annulled that very day, and then the most afflicted of the flock who kept faith with me knew that that was the word of the Lord.

Zechariah 11:7

So I began to shepherd the flock destined for slaughter, the most afflicted of all the flock. Then I took two staffs, calling one “Pleasantness” and the other “Binders,” and I tended the flock.

Matthew 11:5

The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

Revelation 18:20

(Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has pronounced judgment against her on your behalf!)

Revelation 18:24

The blood of the saints and prophets was found in her, along with the blood of all those who had been killed on the earth.”

Revelation 19:2

because his judgments are true and just. For he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and has avenged the blood of his servants poured out by her own hands!”