Psalm 94:20

A Prayer For Retribution Against Oppressors

¹⁹ When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul. ²⁰ Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,
One which devises mischief by decree?
²¹ They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

Allied with

Allied With

Have Fellowship With

Sin

Psalm 58:2

No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.

Amos 6:3

O you who put far away the day of disaster and bring near the seat of violence?

Isaiah 10:1

Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression,

1 Samuel 22:12

And Saul said, "Hear now, son of Ahitub." And he answered, "Here I am, my lord."

1 Kings 12:32

And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

2 Chronicles 6:14-16

and said, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart,

Esther 3:6-12

But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.

Psalm 50:16

But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?

Psalm 52:1

Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.

Psalm 82:1

God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:

Ecclesiastes 3:16

Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

Isaiah 1:11-20

"What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

Jeremiah 7:4-11

Do not trust in these deceptive words: 'This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.'

Daniel 3:4-7

And the herald proclaimed aloud, "You are commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages,

Daniel 6:7-9

All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an injunction, that whoever makes petition to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.

Micah 6:16

For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people."

John 9:22

(His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.)

John 11:57

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

John 18:28

Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor's headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover.

1 John 1:5-6

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Revelation 13:15-17

And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.