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Sálmarnir 72:4
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- InternationalBible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
He shall judge: Psalms 72:12-14, Psalms 109:31, Isaiah 11:4, Ezekiel 34:15, Ezekiel 34:16, Zechariah 11:7, Zechariah 11:11, Matthew 11:5
break: Psalms 2:9, Psalms 94:5, Job 19:2, Job 34:24, Proverbs 20:26, Jeremiah 51:20-23
the oppressor: Isaiah 9:4, Isaiah 51:12, Isaiah 51:13, Daniel 2:34, Daniel 2:35, Zechariah 9:8-10, Revelation 18:6-8, Revelation 18:20, Revelation 18:24, Revelation 19:2
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 3:28 - to do Job 5:15 - he saveth Job 36:6 - giveth Psalms 9:18 - For the Psalms 10:18 - judge Psalms 68:5 - a judge Psalms 76:9 - When Psalms 103:6 - executeth Psalms 140:12 - the Lord Psalms 146:7 - executeth Proverbs 20:8 - General Isaiah 25:4 - thou hast Jeremiah 5:28 - judge Jeremiah 20:13 - for Lamentations 2:7 - they have Zechariah 7:10 - oppress
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He shall judge the poor of the people,.... Of the people of God, whether among Jews or Gentiles; :-;
he shall save the children of the needy; whose parents being needy, they are so too, in a spiritual sense, and in distressed circumstances. Such Christ saves from their sins; from the curses and condemnation of the law: from, wrath to come, and out of the hands of all their enemies;
and shall break in pieces the oppressor; the tyrant Satan, the god of this world; that has usurped a power over it; who works in the children of disobedience, and leads captive the people of God in their unregenerate state: the "calumniator", as some render the word; the accuser of the brethren: "the defrauder" q, as others: who beguiled our first parents, and deceives mankind. Now it was foretold of Christ that he should break his head; and he was manifested in the flesh to destroy his works; and him himself; and he has broke him and all his schemes in pieces, and spoiled all his principalities and powers: The Syriac Version reads, "tyrants" or "oppressors", in the plural number; and it may include the Jews, who were the persecutors and oppressors of the first Christians; and Rome, Pagan and Papal; antichrist, and all the antichristian states, which have been, or will be, broken to pieces by Christ; who will rule them with a rod of iron, and break them in pieces as a potter's vessel, Revelation 2:27.
q עושק "calumniatorem", Pagninus, Tigurine version, Vatablus, Musculus; "fraudatorem", Muis, Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He shall judge the poor of the people - The afflicted; the down-trodden; the needy. He would vindicate their cause against their oppressors; his reign would be one of impartial justice, under which the rights of the poor as well as of the rich would be respected. See the notes at Isaiah 11:4.
He shall save the children of the needy - Those in humble life; those most likely to be oppressed by others; those who have no natural protectors.
And shall break in pieces the oppressor - Shall subdue, or destroy, those who live to oppress others. See the notes at Psalms 12:5.
