Psalm 12:5

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

*Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,* says the LORD; *I will set him in safety from those who malign him.*

Cross References

Job 5:15

But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

Job 5:21

You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

Psalm 10:12

Arise, LORD! God, lift up your hand! Don't forget the helpless.

Psalm 10:18

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

Psalm 10:5

His 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.

Psalm 31:19

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

Psalm 34:6

This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Psalm 73:8

They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

Exodus 5:2

Par`oh said, *Who is the LORD, that I should listen to his voice to let Yisra'el go? I don't know the LORD, and moreover I will not let Yisra'el go.*

Proverbs 14:31

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Then 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.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If 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.

Isaiah 19:20

It will be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the LORD because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them.

Isaiah 33:10

*Now I will arise,* says the LORD; *Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.

Ezekiel 18:18

As 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.

Hosea 7:16

They return, but not to the Elyon. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

James 5:4

Behold, 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.

Judges 10:16

They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served the LORD; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Yisra'el.