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 Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
• Prov 14:31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
• Jas 5:4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
• Ps 146:7–8who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.
• Mic 7:8–9Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
• Isa 33:10“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh; “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.
• Exod 2:23–24In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
• Job 5:15But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
• Job 5:21You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
• Ps 10:12Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.
• Ezek 18:12–13has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
• Exod 3:7–9Yahweh 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.
• Isa 19:20It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them.
• Ps 74:21–22Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
• Ps 79:10–11Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.
• Ezek 18:18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.
• Ps 10:18to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
• Prov 22:22–23Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;
• Eccl 5:8If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
• Eccl 4:1Then I returned and saw 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.
• Ps 10:5His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
• Judg 10:16They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

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