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Psalms 140:12
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Psalms 140:12
12I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
12I know that the LORD will maintaine the cause of the afflicted: and the right of the poore.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 140:12
To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
To preserve, support, uphold, provide for, or continue.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case; as a verb, to make something happen.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Straight, correct, just, proper, or belonging to a lawful claim; also the opposite of left.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Lacking material means; needy, afflicted, lowly, or humble, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Open the full verse study4For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
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Open the full verse study49Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
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Open the full verse study45Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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Open the full verse study10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
11For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
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Open the full verse study16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.
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Open the full verse study5The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
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Open the full verse study17He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
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Open the full verse study10All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
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Open the full verse study4But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
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Open the full verse study22Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
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Open the full verse study17Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
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Open the full verse study24For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
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Open the full verse study12For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
13He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
14He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
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Open the full verse study4He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
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