If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.


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Genesis 18 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Genesis 27 29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Exodus 18 22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
Exodus 23 6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
Leviticus 18 28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
Leviticus 19 15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Leviticus 25 17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God:for I am the LORD your God.
Numbers 13 18 And see the land, what it is, and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
Numbers 14 9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
Deuteronomy 1 17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Deuteronomy 7 17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
Deuteronomy 15 7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
Deuteronomy 15 11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Deuteronomy 20 10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
Deuteronomy 26 7 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
Deuteronomy 28 33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
Deuteronomy 28 43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
Deuteronomy 28 50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
Deuteronomy 32 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Deuteronomy 32 36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
1 Samuel 2 7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
1 Samuel 8 9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
2 Samuel 22 28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
1 Kings 3 9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
1 Chronicles 29 12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
2 Chronicles 20 12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
Ezra 9 7 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
Nehemiah 5 15 But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
Nehemiah 9 33 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
Job 3 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;
Job 5 15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Job 10 3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Job 20 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Job 27 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
Job 31 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Job 34 19 How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
Job 34 30 That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
Job 35 5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
Job 35 9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Job 36 6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
Job 36 15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
Job 36 21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Job 40 12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
Psalms 9 18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Psalms 9 19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
Psalms 10 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms 10 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Psalms 10 10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Psalms 10 12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
Psalms 10 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.