Psalm 140:12 {139:13}
Good News Translation
LORD, I know that you defend the cause of the poor and the rights of the needy.

New Revised Standard Version
I know that the LORD maintains the cause of the needy, and executes justice for the poor.

Contemporary English Version
Our LORD, I know that you defend the homeless and see that the poor are given justice.

New American Bible
For I know the LORD will take up the cause of the needy, justice for the poor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.

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Psalm 9:4 For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice.

Psalm 10:17,18 The Lord hath heard the desire of the poor: thy ear hath heard the preparation of their heart. . . .

Psalm 22:24 Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he turned away his face from me: and when I cried to him he heard me.

Psalm 72:4,12-14 He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor. . . .

Psalm 102:17 He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.

1 Kings 8:45,49 And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them. . . .

Proverbs 22:22 Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:

Proverbs 23:10,11 Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless: . . .

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

Jeremiah 22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own good: was it not therefore because he knew me, saith the Lord?

Matthew 11:5 The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Context
Rescue Me, O LORD, From Evil Men
11A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction. 12I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.13But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name: and the upright shall dwell with thy countenance.…
Cross References
1 Kings 8:45
And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them.

1 Kings 8:49
Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy throne, their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them:

Psalm 9:4
For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice.

Psalm 12:5
By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord. I will set him in safety: I will deal confidently in his regard.

Psalm 18:27
For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.

Psalm 35:10
All my bones shall say: Lord, who is like to thee? Who deliverest the poor from the hand of them that are stronger than he; the needy and the poor from them that strip him.

Psalm 82:3
Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.

Proverbs 22:23
Because the Lord will judge his cause: and will afflict them that have afflicted his soul.

Jeremiah 51:36
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy cause, and will take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate, I and will dry up her spring.

Lamentations 3:35
Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High,

Psalm 140:11
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