Psalms 140:12

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

“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,

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

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.

Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.

By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

“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.”

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

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

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

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

Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

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

for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver.

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,

But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

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.

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 oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

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.

The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

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.

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.”

No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.

“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

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

He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

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

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

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.

Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.

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

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

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

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

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

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.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

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.

He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.

Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, “May Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”

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.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.

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.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down.

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

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

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?”

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

Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

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

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

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

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.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”