Psalm 12:5

Modern King James Version

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah. I will set in safety, he pants for it.

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 hidden from the whip of the tongue; neither shall you be afraid of robbery when it comes.

Psalm 10:12

Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up Your hand; forget not the humble.

Psalm 10:18

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

Psalm 10:5

His ways are always perverted; Your judgments are high, out of his sight. As for all his enemies, he puffs at them.

Psalm 31:19

How great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear You; You have worked for those who trust in You before the sons of men!

Psalm 34:6

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

Psalm 73:8

They scoff and speak in malice of cruelty; from on high they speak.

Exodus 5:2

And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah, neither will I let Israel go.

Proverbs 14:31

He who presses the poor curses his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy upon the poor.

Proverbs 18:21

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

Ecclesiastes 4:1

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of the oppressed ones, and they had no comforter! And on the side of those who oppressed them 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 who is higher than the highest watches; and there are some higher than they.

Isaiah 19:20

And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of Hosts in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry to Jehovah because of the oppressors, and He shall send them a deliverer, and a great one, and will deliver them.

Isaiah 33:10

Now I will rise, says Jehovah; now I will be exalted; now I will lift up Myself.

Ezekiel 18:18

His father, because he extorted, robbed his brother by robbery, and did what 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 rulers shall fall by the sword from the rage of their tongue. This shall be their scorn in the land of Egypt.

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Judges 10:16

And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served Jehovah. And His soul was moved by the misery of Israel.