Ecclesiastes 5:8

Powerful Bureaucrats Exploit The Helpless Poor

⁷ For in the multitude of dreams, both words and vanities abound; but fear God. ⁸ If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter. For He who is higher than the highest watches; and there are some higher than they. ⁹ And the advantage of a land, it is for all; even a king has a field being tilled.

Justice and Righteousness

Most High

Oppression of the Poor

Judgment And Justice

Psalm 12:5

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah. I will set in safety, he pants for it.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of the oppressed ones, and they had no comforter! And on the side of those who oppressed them there was power, but they had no comforter.

Psalm 82:1

A Psalm of Asaph. God stands in the congregation of the mighty; in the midst of the gods He judges.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

And again I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

1 Kings 21:19-20

And you shall speak to him, saying, So says Jehovah, Have you killed and also taken possession? And you shall speak to him saying, So says Jehovah, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick your blood, even yours.

1 Chronicles 21:15-16

And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. And as he was destroying, Jehovah looked. And He repented of the evil and said to the angel who destroyed, Enough! Stay your hand now! And the angel of Jehovah stood by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Job 20:19-29

For he pressed down and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it.

Job 27:8-23

For what is the hope of the ungodly when He cuts off, when God takes away his soul?

Psalm 10:17-18

Jehovah, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will prepare their heart, You will cause Your ear to hear,

Psalm 55:9

Swallow up, O Jehovah, and divide their tongues; for I have seen violence and fighting in the city.

Psalm 58:10-11

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Psalm 83:18

so that men may know that Your name is JEHOVAH, that You alone are the Most High over all the earth.

Psalm 95:3

For Jehovah is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

Psalm 140:11-12

Do not let an evil speaker be established in the earth; evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me; and those who seek me early shall find me.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean? You crush My people and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant; and He looked for justice, but behold bloody iniquity; for righteousness, but behold a cry!

Isaiah 10:5-7

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger! And the staff in their hand is My fury.

Isaiah 10:12

And it will be, when the Lord has broken off all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks.

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. And they rose early in the morning, and behold! They were all dead corpses.

Isaiah 46:10-11

declaring the end from the beginning, and from the past things which were not done, saying, My purpose shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure;

Isaiah 57:15

For so says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity; whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, even with the contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Isaiah 59:13-16

in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and going away from our God, talking cruelty and revolt, conceiving and speaking from the heart words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 22:17-19

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and for cruelty, and to do violence.

Ezekiel 22:6-14

Behold, the rulers of Israel, each man by his might, have been in you in order to shed blood.

Amos 5:12

For I know your many transgressions and your many sins. They afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate.

Amos 6:2-6

Pass to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great. Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms, or their border greater than your border?

Amos 6:12

Shall horses run on the rock? Will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock;

Amos 8:4-7

Hear this, you who trample the poor, even to make the humble of the land to fail,

Micah 2:1-3

Woe to those who plot wickedness and prepare evil on their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 2:9

You have thrown the wives of My people out from the house of her delight; from their children you have taken away My majesty forever.

Micah 3:1-4

And I said, Please hear, O heads of Jacob and magistrates of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?

Micah 3:9-12

Please hear this, heads of the house of Jacob, and magistrates of the house of Israel, who hate justice and pervert all equity.

Micah 6:10-13

Are the treasures of wickedness still in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is hateful?

Habakkuk 1:2-3

O Jehovah, until when shall I cry and You will not hear? I cry out to You of violence, and You do not save!

Habakkuk 1:12-13

Are You not from everlasting, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Jehovah, You have ordained them for judgment; and, my Rock, You have established them for correction.

Zechariah 7:9-13

So speaks Jehovah of Hosts, saying, Judge true judgment, and practice kindness and pity, each man to his brother.

Zechariah 8:6

So says Jehovah of Hosts: If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, will it also be marvelous in My eyes, says Jehovah of Hosts?

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Matthew 13:41-42

The Son of Man shall send out His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who do iniquity,

Luke 1:32

He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Highest. And the Lord God shall give Him the throne of His father David.

Luke 1:35

And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit shall come on you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you. Therefore also that Holy One which will be born of you shall be called Son of God.

Luke 1:76

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest, for you shall go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,

Acts 4:27-28

For truly, against Your holy child Jesus, whom You have anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations, and the people of Israel, were gathered together

Acts 12:7-10

And behold! An angel of the Lord stood by, and a light shone in the building. And striking Peter's side, he raised him up, saying, Rise up quickly! And his chains fell off his hands.

Acts 12:23

And immediately the angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory. And he was eaten by worms and gave up the spirit.

Romans 11:33

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!

James 2:13

For he who has shown no mercy shall have judgment without mercy, and mercy exults over judgment.

James 5:2-7

Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as though a strange thing happened to you,

1 John 3:13

Do not marvel, my brothers, if the world hates you.

Revelation 17:6-7

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with a great marveling.