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Psalms 34:6
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him and saved him from all his troubles.
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James 5:4
Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who mowed your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Armies.
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Proverbs 14:31
The one who oppresses the poor person insults his Maker, but one who is kind to the needy honors him.
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Psalms 146:7-8
executing justice for the exploited and giving food to the hungry. The LORD frees prisoners.The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD raises up those who are oppressed. The LORD loves the righteous.
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Job 5:15
He saves the needy from their sharp words and from the clutches of the powerful.
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Job 5:21
You will be safe from slander and not fear destruction when it comes.
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Exodus 2:23-24
After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, they cried out, and their cry for help because of the difficult labor ascended to God.God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
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Psalms 10:12
Rise up, LORD God! Lift up your hand. Do not forget the oppressed.
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Isaiah 33:10
“ Now I will rise up,” says the LORD.“ Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.
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Exodus 3:7-9
Then the LORD said,“ I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings,and I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey— the territory of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.So because the Israelites’ cry for help has come to me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them,
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Ecclesiastes 4:1
Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun. Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.
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Micah 7:8-9
Do not rejoice over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will stand up; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.Because I have sinned against him, I must endure the LORD’s fury until he champions my cause and establishes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see his salvation.
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Ezekiel 18:18
“ As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity because he practiced fraud, robbed his brother, and did among his people what was not good.
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Ezekiel 18:12-13
and when he oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, and does not return collateral, and when he looks to the idols, commits detestable acts,and lends at interest or for profit, will he live? He will not live! Since he has committed all these detestable acts, he will certainly die. His death will be his own fault.
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Isaiah 19:20
It will be a sign and witness to the LORD of Armies in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and leader, and he will rescue them.
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Psalms 74:21-22
Do not let the oppressed turn away in shame; let the poor and needy praise your name.Rise up, God, champion your cause! Remember the insults that fools bring against you all day long.
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Psalms 10:5
His ways are always secure; your lofty judgments have no effect on him; he scoffs at all his adversaries.
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Proverbs 22:22-23
Don’t rob a poor person because he is poor, and don’t crush the oppressed at the city gate,for the LORD will champion their cause and will plunder those who plunder them.
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.
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Psalms 10:18
doing justice for the fatherless and the oppressed so that mere humans from the earth may terrify them no more.
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Judges 10:16
So they got rid of the foreign gods among them and worshiped the LORD, and he became weary of Israel’s misery.
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Psalms 79:10-11
Why should the nations ask,“ Where is their God?” Before our eyes, let vengeance for the shed blood of your servants be known among the nations.Let the groans of the prisoners reach you; according to your great power, preserve those condemned to die.