“He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 72 contains 20 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.