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Exodus 2:23
During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.
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Job 34:28
They caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he heard the cry of the needy.
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Job 40:9
Do you have an arm like God’s, and can your voice thunder like his?
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Psalms 10:15
Break the arm of the wicked man; call the evildoer to account for his wickedness that would not otherwise be found out.
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Psalms 12:5
“ Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord.“ I will protect them from those who malign them.”
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Psalms 43:2
You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?
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Psalms 56:1-2
Be merciful to me, my God, for my enemies are in hot pursuit; all day long they press their attack.My adversaries pursue me all day long; in their pride many are attacking me.
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Nehemiah 5:1-5
Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews.Some were saying,“ We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain.”Others were saying,“ We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine.”Still others were saying,“ We have had to borrow money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Jews and though our children are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”
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Luke 18:3-7
And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea,‘ Grant me justice against my adversary.’“ For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself,‘ Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think,yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”And the Lord said,“ Listen to what the unjust judge says.And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?
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Job 24:12
The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing.
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Job 12:19
He leads priests away stripped and overthrows officials long established.
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Psalms 55:2-3
hear me and answer me. My thoughts trouble me and I am distraughtbecause of what my enemy is saying, because of the threats of the wicked; for they bring down suffering on me and assail me in their anger.
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Exodus 3:9
And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.
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Exodus 3:7
The Lord said,“ I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.