Lamentations 3:34
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
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Lamentations 3:34
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
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Judges 10:8
They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
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2 Kings 18:21
Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.
Psalms 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.
Psalms 147:3
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
Isaiah 40:11
He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
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.
Isaiah 61:1
The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,
Isaiah 61:2
to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
Isaiah 61:3
to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
Lamentations 3:31
For the Lord will not cast off forever.
Lamentations 3:32
For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
Ezekiel 34:16
“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’
Matthew 11:28
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 12:20
He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.
Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
2 Corinthians 2:7
so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
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2 Chronicles 16:10
Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
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Job 5:4
His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
Psalms 94:5
They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
Isaiah 3:15
What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
Isaiah 10:2
to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Isaiah 29:21
who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
Amos 2:7
They trample the heads of the poor into the dust of the earth and deny justice to the oppressed. A man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name.
Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.
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.
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Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
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Job 10:22
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”
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Job 26:13
By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
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 8:6
You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:
Psalms 47:3
He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.
Psalms 91:13
You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.
Romans 16:20
And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
1 Corinthians 15:25
For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
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Psalms 54:3
For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah.
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.
Psalms 73:8
They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
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Psalms 64:5
They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”
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Psalms 94:9
He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
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Isaiah 28:27
For the dill isn’t threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.
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Isaiah 28:28
Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it.
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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.”
Psalms 69:33
For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
Psalms 79:11
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
Psalms 102:20
to hear the groans of the prisoner, to free those who are condemned to death,
Psalms 109:22
for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
Isaiah 49:9
saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.
Isaiah 53:5
But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
Zechariah 9:11
As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
Zechariah 9:12
Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
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Isaiah 58:3
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.
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Isaiah 51:22
Your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more.
Jeremiah 50:17
“Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”
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 50:34
Their Redeemer is strong. Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jeremiah 51:33
For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her.”
Jeremiah 51:35
May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!” the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!” will Jerusalem say.
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.
Micah 7:9
I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.
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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Lamentations 1:15
“The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me. He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men. The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.
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Lamentations 3:37
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
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Lamentations 3:38
Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
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Matthew 18:30
He would not, but went and cast him into prison until he should pay back that which was due.
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Matthew 18:34
His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due to him.
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Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.
Hebrews 12:12
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
Hebrews 12:13
and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
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