Psalm 94:16

A Prayer For Retribution Against Oppressors

¹⁵ For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it. ¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers? ¹⁷ Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

Workers of Iniquity

Exodus 32:26-29

then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on the LORD's side, come to me." All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.

Numbers 10:35

It happened, when the ark went forward, that Moses said, "Rise up, LORD, and let your enemies be scattered. Let those who hate you flee before you."

Numbers 25:6-13

Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Judges 5:23

Curse Meroz, said the angel of the LORD. Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.

1 Kings 18:39-40

And when all the people saw it, they fell facedown and said, "The LORD, he is God. The LORD, he is God."

2 Kings 9:32

He lifted up his face to the window, and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.

2 Kings 10:15

When he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, "Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?" Jehonadab answered, "It is" And Jehu said, "If it is, give me your hand." He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.

Nehemiah 5:7

Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, "You exact usury, everyone of his brother." I held a great assembly against them.

Psalm 17:13

Arise, LORD, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

Psalm 59:2

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.

Isaiah 59:16

He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness, it upheld him.

Isaiah 63:5

I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my wrath, it upheld me.

Jeremiah 5:1

"Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.

Jeremiah 26:16-19

Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: "This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."

Ezekiel 22:30

"I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.

Matthew 12:30

"He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me, scatters.

John 7:50-51

Nicodemus (he who came to him before, being one of them) said to them,

3 John 1:8

We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.