Psalm 12:5

Oppression By The Wicked

⁴ Which have said, "With our tongue will we prevail; we are they that ought to speak; Who is lord over us?" ⁵ "Now, for the comfortless troubles' sake of the needy, and because of the deep sighing of the poor, I will arise," saith the LORD, "and will help them, and set them at rest." ⁶ The words of the LORD are pure words: even as the silver, which from the earth is tried, and purified seven times in the fire.

Oppression of the Poor

Says the Lord

Jehovah

Isaiah 33:10

And therefore sayeth the LORD, "I will up; now will I get up, now will I arise.

Exodus 2:23-24

And it chanced, in process of time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by the reason of labour, and cried.

Exodus 3:7-9

Then the LORD said, "I have surely seen the trouble of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry, which they have of their taskmasters. For I know their sorrow,

Judges 10:16

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

Job 5:15

And so he delivereth the poor from the sword, from the threatenings of the ungodly, and from the hand of the cruel;

Job 5:21

He shall keep thee from the perilous tongue so that when trouble cometh, thou shalt not need to fear.

Psalm 10:5

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above, out of his sight. Therefore defieth he all his enemies.

Psalm 10:12

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

Psalm 10:18

to help the fatherless and the poor unto their right, that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them.

Psalm 34:6

Lo, the poor crieth, and the LORD heareth him, yea, and saveth him out of all his troubles.

Psalm 74:21-22

O let not the simple go away ashamed; for the poor and needy give praises unto thy name.

Psalm 79:10-11

Wherefore shall the heathen say, "Where is now their God?" O let the vengeance of thy servant's blood that is shed, be openly showed upon the heathen in our sight.

Psalm 146:7-8

who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong; who feedeth the hungry. The LORD looseth men out of prison;

Proverbs 14:31

He that doth a poor man wrong, blasphemeth his maker; but whoso hath pity of the poor, doth honour unto God.

Proverbs 22:22-23

See that thou rob not the poor because he is weak, and oppress not the simple in judgment;

Ecclesiastes 4:1

So I turned me, and considered all the violent wrong that is done under the Sun, and beheld the tears of such as were oppressed; and there was no man to comfort them or that would deliver and defend them from the violence of their oppressors.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou seest the poor to be oppressed and wrongfully dealt withal, so that equity and the right of the law is wrested in the land: marvel not thou at such judgment, for one great man keepeth touch with another, and the mighty help themselves together.

Isaiah 19:20

This shall be a token or testimony unto the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt, when they shall cry unto him, because of those that oppress them. And he shall send them a Captain and a Saviour to deliver them.

Ezekiel 18:12-13

he grieveth the poor and needy; he robbeth and spoileth; he giveth not the debtor his pledge again; he lifteth up his eyes unto Idols, and meddle with abominable things;

Ezekiel 18:18

As for his father, because he oppressed and spoiled his brother, and did wickedly among his people: Lo, he is dead in his own sin.

Micah 7:8-9

O thou enemy of mine, rejoice not at my fall, for I shall get up again: and though I sit in darkness, yet the LORD is my light.

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the laborers which have reaped down your fields - which hire is of you kept back by fraud - crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.