Psalms 72:4

“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,

Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

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?

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

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

“I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.

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.

She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.

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

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

Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.

and shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

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.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.”

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,

I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

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.

I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.

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

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

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

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,

Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”

Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, will sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers will come to her from the north,” says Yahweh.

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

Yahweh my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.

I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.

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

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.

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;

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.”

For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”

“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.

For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

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.

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

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.

It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds. Strangers will no more make them their bondservants;

“As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon.

Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”

Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

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

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

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

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

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

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

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

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

He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

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

You will be established in righteousness. You will be far from oppression, for you will not be afraid, and far from terror, for it shall not come near you.

Sing to Yahweh! Praise Yahweh, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

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.’

Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that 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.

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.

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

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

“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

He breaks mighty men in pieces in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.

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

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

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

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth.

They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.

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

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

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

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

A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

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

For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

I will encamp around my house against the army, that no one pass through or return; and no oppressor will pass through them any more: for now I have seen with my eyes.

So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.

It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was Yahweh’s word.

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.

“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”

In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.”

for his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”