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SIDEBAR: Psalm 12:5--Holiness in the City

  • Psalm 12:5: “ ‘Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,’ ” says the Lord. “ ‘I will protect them from those who malign them.’ ”
  • Psalm 72:12–14: “For he will deliver the needy who cry out, the afflicted who have no one to help. He will take pity on the weak and the needy and save the needy from death. He will rescue them from oppression and violence, for precious is their blood in his sight.”
  • Psalm 109:31: “For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save his life from those who condemn him.”
  • Psalm 146:5–9: “Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them — the Lord, who remains faithful forever. He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets prisoners free, the Lord gives sight to the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the righteous. The Lord watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.”
  • Proverbs 22:22,23: “Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court, for the Lord will take up their case and will plunder those who plunder them.”
  • Proverbs 28:27: “He who gives to the poor will lack nothing, but he who closes his eyes to them receives many curses.”
  • Isaiah 1:17: “ ‘Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.’ ”
  • Jeremiah 22:3: “This is what the Lord says: ‘Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.’ ”
  • 2 Corinthians 9:9: “ ‘He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.’ ”
  • Galatians 2:10: “All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.”