Psalm 12:5

Lighthouse Bible 2006

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffs at him.

Cross References

Job 5:15

But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

Job 5:21

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

Psalm 10:12

Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand: forget not the humble.

Psalm 10:18

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Psalm 10:5

His ways are always crooked; your judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffs at them.

Psalm 31:19

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you; which you have accomplished for those who trust 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 are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

Exodus 5:2

And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.

Proverbs 14:31

He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he who honors him has mercy on the poor.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and those who love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of those that 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 violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regards it; and there is one higher than they.

Isaiah 19:20

And 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 savior, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

Isaiah 33:10

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

Ezekiel 18:18

As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, plundered his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

Hosea 7:16

They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which are by you kept back by fraud, cry out: and the cries of those who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

Judges 10:16

And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.