Ecclesiastes 5:8

Powerful Bureaucrats Exploit The Helpless Poor

⁷ For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God. ⁸ If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they. ⁹ Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king himself is dependent upon the field.

Justice and Righteousness

Most High

Oppression of the Poor

Judgment And Justice

Psalm 12:5

Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith Jehovah, I will set him in safety, at whom they puff.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

And I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors was power, and they had no comforter.

Psalm 82:1

{A Psalm of Asaph.} God standeth in the assembly of God, he judgeth among the gods.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

And moreover I saw under the sun, that in the place of judgment, wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there.

1 Kings 21:19-20

And thou shalt speak unto him saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him saying, Thus saith Jehovah: In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall the dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

1 Chronicles 21:15-16

And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; and as he was destroying, Jehovah beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough; withdraw now thine hand. And the angel of Jehovah stood by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Job 20:19-29

For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.

Job 27:8-23

For what is the hope of the ungodly, when God cutteth him off, when +God taketh away his soul?

Psalm 10:17-18

Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek, thou hast established their heart: thou causest thine ear to hear,

Psalm 55:9

Swallow them up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Psalm 58:10-11

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked:

Psalm 83:18

That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth.

Psalm 95:3

For Jehovah is a great God, and a great king above all gods.

Psalm 140:11-12

Let not the man of evil tongue be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the man of violence to his ruin.

Proverbs 8:17

I love those that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me.

Isaiah 3:15

What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his delight: and he looked for justice, and behold, blood-shedding; for righteousness, and behold, a cry.

Isaiah 10:5-7

Ah! the Assyrian! the rod of mine anger! and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

Isaiah 10:12

And it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stoutness of heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

Isaiah 37:36

And an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies.

Isaiah 46:10-11

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

Isaiah 57:15

For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, and whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, and with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Isaiah 59:13-16

in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 22:17-19

But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it.

Ezekiel 22:6-14

Behold, the princes of Israel have been in thee to shed blood, each according to his power.

Amos 5:12

For I know how manifold are your transgressions and your sins mighty: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the right of the needy in the gate.

Amos 6:2-6

Pass unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go to Hamath the great; and go down to Gath of the Philistines: are they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?

Amos 6:12

Shall horses run upon the rock? will men plough thereon with oxen? For ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Amos 8:4-7

Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,

Micah 2:1-3

Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 2:9

The women of my people do ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children do ye take away my magnificence for ever.

Micah 3:1-4

And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?

Micah 3:9-12

Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity,

Micah 6:10-13

Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure which is abominable?

Habakkuk 1:2-3

Jehovah, how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee, Violence! and thou dost not save.

Habakkuk 1:12-13

Art thou not from everlasting, Jehovah my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. Jehovah, thou hast ordained him for judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast appointed him for correction.

Zechariah 7:9-13

Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew loving-kindness and mercies one to another,

Zechariah 8:6

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If it be wonderful in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be wonderful in mine eyes? saith Jehovah of hosts.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hired servant in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Matthew 13:41-42

The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all offences, and those that practise lawlessness;

Luke 1:32

He shall be great, and shall be called Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father;

Luke 1:35

And the angel answering said to her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and power of the Highest overshadow thee, wherefore the holy thing also which shall be born shall be called Son of God.

Luke 1:76

And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways;

Acts 4:27-28

For in truth against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou hadst anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations, and peoples of Israel, have been gathered together in this city

Acts 12:7-10

And lo, an angel of the Lord came there, and a light shone in the prison: and having smitten the side of Peter, he roused him up, saying, Rise up quickly. And his chains fell off his hands.

Acts 12:23

And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not give the glory to God, and he expired, eaten of worms.

Romans 11:33

O depth of riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable his judgments, and untraceable his ways!

James 2:13

for judgment will be without mercy to him that has shewn no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.

James 5:2-7

Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, take not as strange the fire of persecution which has taken place amongst you for your trial, as if a strange thing was happening to you;

1 John 3:13

Do not wonder, brethren, if the world hate you.

Revelation 17:6-7

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I wondered, seeing her, with great wonder.