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 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
• Ps 9:9The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
• Ps 146:7Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
• Prov 14:31He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
• Ps 72:12For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
• Prov 22:22–23Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
• Deut 24:14–15Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
• Ps 109:31For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
• Mic 2:1–3Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• Jas 2:6But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
• Jas 5:1–6Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
• Mic 3:2–4Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
• Jer 7:6–15If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
• Job 27:13–23This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
• Ps 72:4He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
• Ps 10:14–18Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
• Ezek 22:7In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
• Ezek 22:12–14In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
• Isa 14:4–32That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
• Isa 58:6–7Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
• Prov 23:10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

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