Psalms 103:6

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

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

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance.

Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

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

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.

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.

Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.

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

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”

Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

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.

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

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.

Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone which your fathers have set up.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

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

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

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

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

However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

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.

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

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

“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.”

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

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

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

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

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

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

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

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.

Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

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

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

“The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?