Proverbia 72:4

Nova Vulgata

Iudicabit pauperes populi et salvos faciet filios inopis et humiliabit calumniatorem.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Quia non est respectus morti eorum, et firmamentum in plaga eorum.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Quia non est respectus morti eorum,
et firmamentum in plaga eorum.

Bible 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.