Psalm 12:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now rise up,” says the Lord; “I will place them in the safety for which they long.”

Cross References

Job 5:15

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

Job 5:21

You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue and shall not fear destruction when it comes.

Psalm 10:12

Rise up, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; do not forget the oppressed.

Psalm 10:18

to do justice for the orphan and the oppressed, so that those from earth may strike terror no more.

Psalm 10:5

Their ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of their sight; as for their foes, they scoff at them.

Psalm 31:19

O how abundant is your goodness that you have laid up for those who fear you and accomplished for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of everyone!

Psalm 34:6

This poor soul cried and was heard by the Lord and was saved from every trouble.

Psalm 73:8

They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.

Exodus 5:2

But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should listen to him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.”

Proverbs 14:31

Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him.

Proverbs 18:21

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

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and right, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

Isaiah 19:20

It will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; when they cry to the Lord because of oppressors, he will send them a savior and will defend and 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 practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, he died for his iniquity.

Hosea 7:16

They turn to that which does not profit; they have become like a defective bow; their officials shall fall by the sword because of the rage of their tongue. So much for their babbling in the land of Egypt.

James 5:4

Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Judges 10:16

So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and he could no longer bear to see Israel suffer.