Ecclesiastes 4:1

World Messianic Bible British Edition

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.

Cross References

Job 16:4

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

Job 35:9

“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Job 6:29

Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

Job 9:24

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

Psalm 12:5

“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.”

Psalm 142:4

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Psalm 142:5

I cried to you, LORD. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:9

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Psalm 69:20

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

Psalm 69:21

They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

Psalm 80:5

You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

Exodus 1:16

and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

Exodus 1:22

Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

Proverbs 19:7

All the relatives of the poor shun him; how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

Proverbs 28:3

A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

Proverbs 29:2

When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

Isaiah 51:23

I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Jeremiah 16:7

Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

Lamentations 1:16

“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”

Lamentations 1:17

Zion spreads out her hands. There is no one to comfort her. The LORD has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is amongst them as an unclean thing.

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Amongst all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:9

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, LORD, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

Amos 3:10

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says the LORD, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

Amos 3:9

Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression is amongst them.”

Malachi 2:13

“This again you do: you cover the LORD’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

Malachi 3:18

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

Malachi 3:5

I will come near to you to judgement. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Matthew 26:56

But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,

Deuteronomy 28:48

therefore you will serve your enemies whom the LORD sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of the labourers 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 Hosts.

Judges 4:3

The children of Israel cried to the LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.