Psalms 103:6

The LORD works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed. He is not indifferent to wrong but actively vindicates the downtrodden.

Cross-references · 21

• Ps 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
• Ps 9:9The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
• Ps 146:7He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
• Prov 14:31Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
• Ps 72:12For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
• Prov 22:22–23Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
• Deut 24:14–15Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
• Ps 109:31For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.
• Mic 2:1–3Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
• Jas 2:6But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
• Jas 5:1–6Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
• Mic 3:2–4You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
• Jer 7:6–15if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
• Job 27:13–23This is the wicked man’s portion from God—the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
• Ps 72:4May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.
• Ps 10:14–18But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
• Ezek 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
• Ezek 22:12–14In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
• Isa 14:4–32you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
• Isa 58:6–7Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
• Prov 23:10Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

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