The Lord works vindication and justice for all who are oppressed.
For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save them from those who would condemn them to death.
“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now rise up,” says the Lord; “I will place them in the safety for which they long.”
who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;
All my bones shall say, “O Lord, who is like you? You deliver the weak from those too strong for them, the weak and needy from those who despoil them.”
For he delivers the needy when they call, the poor and those who have no helper.
May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor.
The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him.
Do not remove an ancient landmark or encroach on the fields of orphans,
Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you.
And the slave said, ‘Sir, what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’
But you have dishonored the poor person. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into the courts?