Psalm 72:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Job 19:2

“How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?

Job 34:24

He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets others in their place.

Psalm 109:31

For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save them from those who would condemn them to death.

Psalm 2:9

You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

Psalm 94:5

They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage.

Proverbs 20:26

A wise king winnows the wicked and drives the wheel over them.

Isaiah 11:4

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

Isaiah 42:1

Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.

Isaiah 42:3

a bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.

Isaiah 9:4

For the yoke of their burden and the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.

Zechariah 11:11

So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep merchants who were watching me knew that it was the word of the Lord.

Zechariah 11:7

So on behalf of the sheep merchants, I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. I took two staffs; one I named Favor, the other I named Unity, and I tended the sheep.

Matthew 11:5

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with a skin disease are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them.

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints and apostles and prophets! For God has condemned her condemnation of you.

Revelation 18:24

And in you was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all who have been slaughtered on earth.”

Revelation 19:2

for his judgments are true and just; he has judged the great whore who corrupted the earth with her prostitution, and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”