Psalms 12:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him who puffs at him.

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  • Prov 14:31 : 31 He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy on the poor.
  • Isa 33:10 : 10 Now I will arise, says the LORD; now I will be exalted, now I will lift myself up.
  • Exod 2:23-24 : 23 Now it happened, in the process of time, that the king of Egypt died. The children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
  • Exod 3:7-9 : 7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows; 8 And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good land and a large, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
  • Judg 10:16 : 16 And they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
  • Job 5:15 : 15 But he saves the needy from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
  • Job 5:21 : 21 You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue: nor shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
  • Ps 10:12 : 12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up Your hand; do not forget the humble.
  • Ps 34:6 : 6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
  • Ps 146:7-8 : 7 Who executes judgment for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners: 8 The LORD opens the eyes of the blind; the LORD raises those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous:
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
  • Ps 74:21-22 : 21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise Your name. 22 Arise, O God, plead Your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches You daily.
  • Ps 79:10-11 : 10 Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? Let Him be known among the heathen in our sight by avenging the blood of Your servants which is shed. 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power, preserve those appointed to die;
  • Ps 10:18 : 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may oppress no more.
  • Ps 10:5 : 5 His ways are always grievous; Your judgments are far above, out of his sight; as for all his enemies, he sneers at them.
  • Ezek 18:12-13 : 12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination, 13 Has given out loans with interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? He shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
  • Ezek 18:18 : 18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did what is not good among his people, behold, even he shall die in his iniquity.
  • Mic 7:8-9 : 8 Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light to me. 9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me; he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
  • Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Do not rob the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate; 23 For the LORD will plead their cause and plunder the soul of those who plunder them.
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter.
  • Eccl 5:8 : 8 If you see the oppression of the poor and the violent perversion of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter; for He who is higher than the highest regards, and there are higher than they.
  • Isa 19:20 : 20 It shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt, for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and He shall send them a savior, a great one, and He shall deliver them.

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