Psalms 103:6

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Psalms 103:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,

5 who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

6 The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

7 He made known His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel.

8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.

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Psalms 9:9

The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

Psalms 10:14

But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

Psalms 10:15

Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.

Psalms 10:16

The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations perish from His land.

Psalms 10:17

You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear,

Psalms 10:18

to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.

Psalms 12:5

“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”

Psalms 72:4

May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.

Psalms 72:12

For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.

Psalms 109:31

For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.

Psalms 146:7

He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,

Deuteronomy 24:14

Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

Deuteronomy 24:15

You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Job 27:13

This is the wicked man’s portion from God— the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

Job 27:14

Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.

Job 27:15

His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.

Job 27:16

Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,

Job 27:17

what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.

Job 27:18

The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.

Job 27:19

He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.

Job 27:20

Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

Job 27:21

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Job 27:22

It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

Job 27:23

It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.

Proverbs 14:31

Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,

Proverbs 22:23

for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.

Proverbs 23:10

Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

Isaiah 14:4

you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!

Isaiah 14:5

The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.

Isaiah 14:6

It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.

Isaiah 14:7

All the earth is at peace and at rest; they break out in song.

Isaiah 14:8

Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”

Isaiah 14:9

Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you— all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

Isaiah 14:10

They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”

Isaiah 14:11

Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.

Isaiah 14:12

How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

Isaiah 14:13

You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.

Isaiah 14:14

I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

Isaiah 14:15

But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.

Isaiah 14:16

Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,

Isaiah 14:17

who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”

Isaiah 14:18

All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.

Isaiah 14:19

But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.

Isaiah 14:20

You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.

Isaiah 14:21

Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.

Isaiah 14:22

“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.

Isaiah 14:23

“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

Isaiah 14:24

The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.

Isaiah 14:25

I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”

Isaiah 14:26

This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.

Isaiah 14:27

The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?

Isaiah 14:28

In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:

Isaiah 14:29

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

Isaiah 14:30

Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.

Isaiah 14:31

Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.

Isaiah 14:32

What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”

Isaiah 58:6

Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?

Isaiah 58:7

Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

Jeremiah 7:6

if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

Jeremiah 7:7

then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

Jeremiah 7:8

But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

Jeremiah 7:9

Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

Jeremiah 7:10

and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?

Jeremiah 7:11

Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 7:12

But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

Jeremiah 7:13

And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,

Jeremiah 7:14

therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.

Jeremiah 7:15

And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 22:13

Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst.

Ezekiel 22:14

Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will act.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

Micah 2:3

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.

Micah 3:2

You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.

Micah 3:3

You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?

James 5:1

Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.

James 5:2

Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.

James 5:3

Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.

James 5:4

Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

James 5:5

You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.