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“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
• Ps 9:9Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.
• Ps 146:7who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.
• Prov 14:31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
• Ps 72:12For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.
• Prov 22:22–23Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;
• Deut 24:14–15You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers, or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.
• Ps 109:31For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.
• Mic 2:1–3Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• Jas 2:6But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
• Jas 5:1–6Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
• Mic 3:2–4You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
• Jer 7:6–15if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
• Job 27:13–23“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
• Ps 72:4He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
• Ps 10:14–18But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
• Ezek 22:7In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
• Ezek 22:12–14In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
• Isa 14:4–32that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”
• Isa 58:6–7“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
• Prov 23:10Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

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