The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.
“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safet
The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.
Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
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.
But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
This is the wicked man’s portion from God—the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in thi
But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are t
May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.
In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the
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 op
you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ende
Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,