Proverbs 23:11

One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

A drought is on her waters, and they will be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.

He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

Your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more.

I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise.

Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.

Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?”

Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”

But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man:

I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.

A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?

Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.