Psalm 72:4 {71:4}
Good News Translation
May the king judge the poor fairly; may he help the needy and defeat their oppressors.

New Revised Standard Version
May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor.

Contemporary English Version
Let the king defend the poor, rescue the homeless, and crush everyone who hurts them.

New American Bible
That he may defend the oppressed among the people, save the children of the poor and crush the oppressor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor.

He shall judge

Psalm 72:12-14 For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had no helper. . . .

Psalm 109:31 Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors.

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.

Ezekiel 34:15,16 I will feed my sheep: and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God. . . .

Zechariah 11:7,11 And I will feed the flock of slaughter for this, O ye poor of the flock. And I took unto me two rods, one I called Beauty, and the other I called a Cord, and I fed the flock. . . .

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.

break

Psalm 2:9 Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, and shalt break them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

Psalm 94:5 Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: and they have afflicted thy inheritance.

Job 19:2 How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

Job 34:24 He shall break in pieces many and innumerable, and shall make others to stand in their stead.

Proverbs 20:26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth over them the wheel.

Jeremiah 51:20-23 Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with thee I will dash nations together, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms: . . .

the oppressor

Isaiah 9:4 For the yoke of their burden, and the rod of their shoulder, and the sceptre of their oppressor thou hast overcome, as in the day of Madian.

Isaiah 51:12,13 I myself will comfort you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man, who shall wither away like grass? . . .

Daniel 2:34,35 Thus thou sawest, till a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands: and it struck the statue upon the feet thereof that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. . . .

Zechariah 9:8-10 And I will encompass my house with them that serve me in war, going and returning, and the oppressor shall no more pass through them: for now I have seen with my eyes. . . .

Revelation 18:6-8,20,24 Render to her as she also hath rendered to you: and double unto her double, according to her works. In the cup wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye double unto her. . . .

Revelation 19:2 For true and just are his judgments, who hath judged the great harlot which corrupted the earth with her fornication and hath revenged the blood of his servants, at her hands.

Context
Endow the King with Your Justice
3Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills justice. 4He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor.5And he shall continue with the sun and before the moon, throughout all generations.…
Cross References
Psalm 2:9
Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, and shalt break them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

Psalm 72:12
For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had no helper.

Proverbs 29:14
The king that judgeth the poor in truth, his throne shall be established for ever.

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.

Isaiah 42:3
The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

Jeremiah 22:3
Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgment and justice, and deliver him that is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor: and afflict not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, nor oppress them unjustly: and shed not innocent blood in this place.

Zechariah 7:10
And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger, and the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against his brother.

Psalm 72:3
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