1Ki 8:45
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. {cause: or, right}
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For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right. {maintained...: Heb. made my judgment} {judging right: Heb. judging in righteousness}
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, {and} the right of the poor.
And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, {if} the plague {be} somewhat dark, {and} the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it {is but} a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause, {cause: or, right}