Psalm 94:16

A Prayer For Retribution Against Oppressors

¹⁵ For judgment will return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart [will follow] after it. ¹⁶ Who rose up for me against [the] wicked? Who stood up for me against [the] workers of iniquity? ¹⁷ If Yahweh had not been my help, my soul would soon have dwelt in silence.

Workers of Iniquity

Exodus 32:26-29

And Moses stood at the entrance of the camp, and he said, "Whoever [is] for Yahweh, to me." And all the sons of Levi were gathered to him.

Numbers 10:35

And whenever the ark was setting out Moses would say, "Rise up, Yahweh! May your enemies be scattered; may the ones that hate you flee from your presence."

Numbers 25:6-13

And behold, a man from the {Israelites} came and brought to his brothers Midianite woman before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of all of the community of the {Israelites}, and they [were] weeping [at] the doorway of the tent of assembly.

Judges 5:23

'Curse Meroz,' says the angel of Yahweh; 'curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they did not come to the help of Yahweh, to the help of Yahweh against the mighty.'

1 Kings 18:39-40

When all the people saw, they fell on their faces and said, "Yahweh, he [is] God! Yahweh, he [is] God!"

2 Kings 9:32

When he lifted up his face to the window, he asked, "Who [is] with me?" Two or three eunuchs looked down to him.

2 Kings 10:15

Next he went from there and found Jehonadab the son of Recab to meet him. He greeted him and asked him, "{Is your heart right with me as my heart is with you}?" Then Jehonadab said, "Yes, it is. Give your hand!" And he gave his hand and took him up to him on the chariot.

Nehemiah 5:7

I thought over this in my heart, and then I quarreled with the nobles and the prefects. I said to them, "You yourselves are taking interest from your own brother!" So I called the great assembly against them,

Psalm 17:13

Rise up, O Yahweh, confront {him}. Make him bow down. Rescue with your sword my life from [the] wicked,

Psalm 59:2

Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and from men of bloodshed save me.

Isaiah 59:16

And he saw that there was no man, and he was appalled that there was no one who intercedes, so his arm came to assist him, and his righteousness {was what} sustained him.

Isaiah 63:5

And I looked, but there was no helper, and I was appalled, but there was no one who sustains, so my arm came to assist me, and my wrath {was what} sustained me.

Jeremiah 5:1

"Roam about through the streets of Jerusalem, and look please, and take note, and search at its public squares, if you can find a person [who] does justice, [who] seeks honesty, so that I may forgive it.

Jeremiah 26:16-19

Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, "{This man does not deserve} a sentence of death, for in the name of Yahweh our God, he has spoken to us."

Ezekiel 22:30

And [so] I sought for them somebody, one repairing [the] wall and standing in the breach {before me} on behalf of the land not to destroy it, but I did not find [anyone],

Matthew 12:30

The one who is not with me is against me, and the one who does not gather with me scatters.

John 7:50-51

Nicodemus, the one who came to him previously--who was one of them--said to them,

3 John 1:8

Therefore we ought to support such [people], so that we become fellow workers with [the] truth.