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Psalms 34:6
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.
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James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
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Proverbs 14:31
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
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Psalms 146:7-8
who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;the Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous.
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Job 5:15
But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth and from the hand of the mighty.
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Job 5:21
You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
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Exodus 2:23-24
During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
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Psalms 10:12
Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.
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Isaiah 33:10
“ Now I will arise,” 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 surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings,and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
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Ecclesiastes 4:1
Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.
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Micah 7:8-9
Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.
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Ezekiel 18:18
As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, behold, he shall die for his iniquity.
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Ezekiel 18:12-13
oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.
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Isaiah 19:20
It will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry to the Lord because of oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and deliver them.
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Psalms 74:21-22
Let not the downtrodden turn back in shame; let the poor and needy praise your name.Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
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Psalms 10:5
His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
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Proverbs 22:22-23
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate,for the Lord will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
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Psalms 10:18
to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
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Judges 10:16
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and he became impatient over the misery of Israel.
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Psalms 79:10-11
Why should the nations say,“ Where is their God?” Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!Let the groans of the prisoners come before you; according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die!