Psalm 12:5

Oppression By The Wicked

⁴ They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us? ⁵ Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring. ⁶ The words of the Lord are true words: like silver tested by fire and burned clean seven times.

Oppression of the Poor

Says the Lord

Jehovah

Isaiah 33:10

Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.

Exodus 2:23-24

Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.

Exodus 3:7-9

And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;

Judges 10:16

So they put away the strange gods from among them, and became the Lord's servants; and his soul was angry because of the sorrows of Israel.

Job 5:15

But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong.

Job 5:21

He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.

Psalm 10:5

His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.

Psalm 10:12

Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.

Psalm 10:18

To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.

Psalm 34:6

This poor man's cry came before the Lord, and he gave him salvation from all his troubles.

Psalm 74:21-22

O let not the crushed be turned back in shame; let the low man and the poor give praise to your name.

Psalm 146:7-8

Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;

Proverbs 14:31

He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.

Proverbs 22:22-23

Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

Ecclesiastes 4:1

And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

Isaiah 19:20

And it will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of armies in the land of Egypt: when they are crying out to the Lord because of their cruel masters, then he will send them a saviour and a strong one to make them free.

Ezekiel 18:12-13

Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need, and taken property by force, and has not given back to one in his debt what is his, and has given worship to images and has done disgusting things,

Ezekiel 18:18

As for his father, because he was cruel, took goods by force, and did what is not good among his people, truly, death will overtake him in his evil-doing.

Micah 7:8-9

Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.

James 5:4

See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.