For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.
The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.
The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.
Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand.
no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”
The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, for the Lord will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.
May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death.
For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper. He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy.
But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.
You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.
let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well. This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
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