Psalms 12:5

Because of the oppression of the weak, Yahweh declares He will now arise to protect them. God promises to act for the afflicted who are maligned.

Cross-references · 22

• Ps 34:6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
• Prov 14:31He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
• Jas 5:4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
• Ps 146:7–8Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
• Mic 7:8–9Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
• Isa 33:10Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
• Exod 2:23–24And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
• Job 5:15But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
• Job 5:21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
• Ps 10:12Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
• Ezek 18:12–13Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
• Exod 3:7–9And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
• Isa 19:20And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto 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 saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
• Ps 74:21–22O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
• Ps 79:10–11Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
• Ezek 18:18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
• Ps 10:18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
• Prov 22:22–23Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
• Eccl 5:8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
• Eccl 4:1So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
• Ps 10:5His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
• Judg 10:16And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

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