1 Kings 8:45

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Psalm 9:4

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

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

Jeremiah 5:28

they have grown fat and sleek. They know no limits in deeds of wickedness; they do not judge with justice the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

1 Kings 8:44

“If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,

1 Kings 8:46

“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,

Psalm 140:12

I know that the Lord maintains the cause of the needy and executes justice for the poor.