Psalm 12:5

Oppression By The Wicked

⁴ Who have said, With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? ⁵ “Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,
Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will set him in the safety for which he longs.”
⁶ The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Oppression of the Poor

Says the Lord

Jehovah

Isaiah 33:10

Now I will rise up, saith the LORD; now I will be exalted; now I will be lifted up.

Exodus 2:23-24

And it came to pass in process of time that the king of Egypt died, and the sons of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God from their bondage.

Exodus 3:7-9

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

Judges 10:16

And they put away the strange gods from among them and served the LORD; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Job 5:15

But he saves the poor from the sword, from the mouth of the wicked, and from the hand of the violent.

Job 5:21

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it comes.

Psalm 10:5

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his enemies, he puffs at them.

Psalm 10:12

Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand; forget not the humble.

Psalm 10:18

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed that the man of the earth may no longer oppress.

Psalm 34:6

Vau This poor man cried out, and the LORD heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.

Psalm 74:21-22

O let not the oppressed return ashamed; the poor and destitute shall praise thy name.

Psalm 79:10-11

Why should the Gentiles say, Where is their God? let him be known among the Gentiles in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy slaves which is shed.

Psalm 146:7-8

He who does justice unto the oppressed; who gives bread to the hungry. The LORD looses the prisoners:

Proverbs 14:31

He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he that has mercy on the poor, honours him.

Proverbs 22:22-23

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither destroy the destitute in judgment:

Ecclesiastes 4:1

So I returned and considered all the violence that is done under the sun and behold the tears of such as are oppressed, and they have no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but the oppressed had no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou seest violence unto the poor and the extortion of rights and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for height is looking upon height; and there is one higher than they.

Isaiah 19:20

And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of the hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a Saviour, and a Prince, and he shall deliver them.

Ezekiel 18:12-13

oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, or lifts up his eyes to the idols, or makes an abomination,

Ezekiel 18:18

As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, even he shall die for his iniquity.

Micah 7:8-9

Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy; for if I have fallen, I shall arise; if I sit in darkness, the LORD is my light.

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts.