Psalms 109:31

David affirms that God stands at the right hand of the needy to save them from unjust judges. The Lord defends the very ones the wicked condemn.

Cross-references · 16

• Ps 121:5Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
• Ps 16:8I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
• Ps 73:23Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.
• Isa 54:17No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.
• Ps 110:5The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
• Ps 140:12I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
• Prov 22:22–23Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;
• Eccl 5:8If 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.
• Ps 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
• Ps 72:4He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
• Ps 72:12–13For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.
• Ps 10:14But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
• Ps 109:16because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.
• Acts 5:30–31The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
• Exod 22:22–24“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
• Acts 4:10–12be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.

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