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Psalms 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.”

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Genesis 16:11
Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

Genesis 31:12
He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

Exodus 2:25
God saw the children of Israel, and God understood.

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Exodus 1:13
The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

Exodus 1:14
and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

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Exodus 22:24
and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Exodus 22:27
for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

Exodus 23:9
“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 24:14
You 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.

Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Psalms 9:12
For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

Psalms 10:18
to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

Psalms 62:10
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

Psalms 72:12
For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Psalms 102:17
He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

Psalms 146:7
who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

Proverbs 3:31
Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

Proverbs 23:10
Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

Malachi 3:5
I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Ephesians 6:9
You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

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Deuteronomy 32:36
For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.

Deuteronomy 32:39
“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

Deuteronomy 32:43
Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

Judges 10:16
They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Psalms 79:10
Why 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.

Isaiah 59:16
He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness sustained him.

Isaiah 59:17
He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

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1 Samuel 1:1
Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

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2 Samuel 22:28
You will save the afflicted people, but your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down.

Job 5:16
So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

Isaiah 14:32
What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

Isaiah 29:19
The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 57:15
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Zephaniah 3:12
But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.

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Job 20:19
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

Psalms 10:2
In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

Psalms 10:8
He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

Psalms 10:9
He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

Psalms 14:6
You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

Proverbs 28:15
As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

Isaiah 3:13
Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.

Isaiah 3:14
Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

Micah 2:1
Woe 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.

Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

Matthew 23:14
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.

James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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Psalms 12:2
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

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Psalms 56:1
Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

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Psalms 44:23
Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.

Psalms 44:26
Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.

Psalms 59:5
You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.

Psalms 68:2
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

Psalms 74:11
Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!

Psalms 78:66
He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

Isaiah 51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

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Psalms 35:1
Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

Jeremiah 50:33
Yahweh of Armies says: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together. All who took them captive hold them fast. They refuse to let them go.

Jeremiah 51:36
Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

Micah 7:8
Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

Zechariah 1:15
I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”

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Daniel 9:20
While I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God—

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Psalms 55:3
because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

Habakkuk 2:3
For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Luke 18:3
A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’

Luke 18:4
He wouldn’t for a while; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,

Luke 18:5
yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’ ”

Luke 18:6
The Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

Luke 18:7
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

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