Psalm 12:5

The Scriptures 1998

“Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, I now arise,” says יהוה, “I set in safety – he pants for it.”

Cross References

Job 5:15

But He saves the needy from the sword of their mouth, from the clutches of the strong.

Job 5:21

When the tongue scourges you are shielded, and you have no fear when destruction comes.

Psalm 10:12

Arise, O יהוה! O Ě

Psalm 10:18

To defend the fatherless and the downtrodden; So that man who is of the earth no longer oppresses!

Psalm 10:5

His ways are always prosperous! Your right-rulings are on high, out of his sight! He snorts at all his adversaries!

Psalm 31:19

How great is Your goodness, Which You have laid up for those fearing You, Which You have prepared for those taking refuge in You In the sight of the sons of men!

Psalm 34:6

This poor one cried out and יהוה  heard him, And saved him out of all his distresses.

Psalm 73:8

They mock and speak in the evil of oppression; They speak loftily.

Exodus 5:2

And Pharaoh said, “Who is יהוה, that I should obey His voice to let Yisra’ĕ

Proverbs 14:31

He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, But he who esteems Him shows favour to the needy.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Then I looked again at all the oppression that is done under the sun: And see! The tears of the oppressed, but they have no comforter; and power on the side of their oppressors, but they have no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor, and denial of right-ruling and righteousness in a province, do not be astonished at the matter. For a higher than the high is guarding, and there are higher ones over them.

Isaiah 19:20

And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to יהוה  of hosts in the land of Mitsrayim. When they cry to יהוה  because of the oppressors, He sends them a Saviour and an Elohim, and shall deliver them.

Isaiah 33:10

“Now I rise up,” declares יהוה. “Now I am exalted, now I am lifted up.

Ezekiel 18:18

“His father, because he used oppression, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, see, he shall die for his crookedness.

Hosea 7:16

“They return, but not to the Most High. They have been like a slack bow. Their rulers fall by the sword for the cursings of their tongue. This is their scorn in the land of Mitsrayim.

James 5:4

See, the wages of the workmen who mowed your fields, which you kept back, cry out. And the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of יהוה  of hosts.

Judges 10:16

So they put away the foreign mighty ones from their midst and served יהוה. And His being was grieved with the trouble of Yisra’ĕ