◄ Psalm 72:4 ►
May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.
Cross References
Psalm 2:9
You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery."

Psalm 72:12
For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.

Proverbs 29:14
A king who judges the poor with fairness--his throne will be established forever.

Isaiah 11:4
but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.

Isaiah 42:3
A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.

Jeremiah 22:3
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Zechariah 7:10
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.'


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He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

He shall judge



Psalm 72:12-14
For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper…



Psalm 109:31
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.



Isaiah 11:4
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

break



Psalm 2:9
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.



Psalm 94:5
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.



Job 19:2
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

the oppressor



Isaiah 9:4
For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.



Isaiah 51:12,13
I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; …



Daniel 2:34,35
Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces…


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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