Bible Cross References
I returned
Job 6:29
You have gone far enough. Stop being unjust. Don't condemn me. I'm in the right.
Malachi 3:18
Once again my people will see the difference between what happens to the righteous and to the wicked, to the person who serves me and the one who does not."
and considered
Ecclesiastes 3:16
In addition, I have also noticed that in this world you find wickedness where justice and right ought to be.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
Don't be surprised when you see that the government oppresses the poor and denies them justice and their rights. Every official is protected by someone higher, and both are protected by still higher officials.
Ecclesiastes 7:7
You may be wise, but if you cheat someone, you are acting like a fool. If you take a bribe, you ruin your character.
Exodus 1:13
and made their lives miserable by forcing them into cruel slavery. They made them work on their building projects and in their fields, and they had no pity on them.
Exodus 1:14
(SEE 1:13)
Exodus 1:16
"When you help the Hebrew women give birth," he said to them, "kill the baby if it is a boy; but if it is a girl, let it live."
Exodus 1:22
Finally the king issued a command to all his people: "Take every newborn Hebrew boy and throw him into the Nile, but let all the girls live."
Exodus 2:23
Years later the king of Egypt died, but the Israelites were still groaning under their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry went up to God,
Exodus 2:24
who heard their groaning and remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Exodus 5:16-19
16
We are given no straw, but we are still ordered to make bricks! And now we are being beaten. It is your people that are at fault."
17
The king answered, "You are lazy and don't want to work, and that is why you ask me to let you go and offer sacrifices to the LORD.
18
Now get back to work! You will not be given any straw, but you must still make the same number of bricks."
19
The foremen realized that they were in trouble when they were told that they had to make the same number of bricks every day as they had made before.
Deuteronomy 28:33
A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow, while you receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.
Deuteronomy 28:48
So then, you will serve the enemies that the LORD is going to send against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, and naked---in need of everything. The LORD will oppress you harshly until you are destroyed.
Judges 4:3
Jabin had nine hundred iron chariots, and he ruled the people of Israel with cruelty and violence for twenty years. Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD for help.
Judges 10:7
So the LORD became angry with the Israelites, and let the Philistines and the Ammonites conquer them.
Judges 10:8
For eighteen years they oppressed and persecuted all the Israelites who lived in Amorite country east of the Jordan River in Gilead.
Nehemiah 5:1-5
1
Some time later many of the people, both men and women, began to complain against the other Jews.
2
Some said, "We have large families, we need grain to keep us alive."
3
Others said, "We have had to mortgage our fields and vineyards and houses to get enough grain to keep us from starving."
4
Still others said, "We had to borrow money to pay the royal tax on our fields and vineyards.
5
We are of the same race as the other Jews. Aren't our children just as good as theirs? But we have to make slaves of our children. Some of our daughters have already been sold as slaves. We are helpless because our fields and vineyards have been taken away from us."
Job 24:7-12
7
At night they sleep with nothing to cover them, nothing to keep them from the cold.
8
They are drenched by the rain that falls on the mountains, and they huddle beside the rocks for shelter.
9
Evil people make slaves of fatherless infants and take the children of the poor in payment for debts.
10
But the poor must go out with no clothes to protect them; they must go hungry while harvesting wheat.
11
They press olives for oil, and grapes for wine, but they themselves are thirsty.
12
In the cities the wounded and dying cry out, but God ignores their prayers.
Psalm 10:9
they wait in their hiding place like lions. They lie in wait for the poor; they catch them in their traps and drag them away.
Psalm 10:10
The helpless victims lie crushed; brute strength has defeated them.
Proverbs 28:3
Someone in authority who oppresses poor people is like a driving rain that destroys the crops.
Proverbs 28:15
Poor people are helpless against a wicked ruler; he is as dangerous as a growling lion or a prowling bear.
Proverbs 28:16
A ruler without good sense will be a cruel tyrant. One who hates dishonesty will rule a long time.
Isaiah 5:7
Israel is the vineyard of the LORD Almighty; the people of Judah are the vines he planted. He expected them to do what was good, but instead they committed murder. He expected them to do what was right, but their victims cried out for justice.
Isaiah 51:23
I will give it to those who oppressed you, to those who made you lie down in the streets and trampled on you as if you were dirt."
Isaiah 59:7
You are always planning something evil, and you can hardly wait to do it. You never hesitate to murder innocent people. You leave ruin and destruction wherever you go,
Isaiah 59:13-15
13
We have rebelled against you, rejected you, and refused to follow you. We have oppressed others and turned away from you. Our thoughts are false; our words are lies.
14
Justice is driven away, and right cannot come near. Truth stumbles in the public square, and honesty finds no place there.
15
There is so little honesty that those who stop doing evil find themselves the victims of crime." The LORD has seen this, and he is displeased that there is no justice.
Malachi 3:5
The LORD Almighty says, "I will appear among you to judge, and I will testify at once against those who practice magic, against adulterers, against those who give false testimony, those who cheat employees out of their wages, and those who take advantage of widows, orphans, and foreigners---against all who do not respect me.
the tears
Psalm 42:3
Day and night I cry, and tears are my only food; all the time my enemies ask me, "Where is your God?"
Psalm 42:9
To God, my defender, I say, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go on suffering from the cruelty of my enemies?"
Psalm 80:5
You have given us sorrow to eat, a large cup of tears to drink.
Psalm 102:8
All day long my enemies insult me; those who mock me use my name in cursing.
Psalm 102:9
Because of your anger and fury, ashes are my food, and my tears are mixed with my drink. You picked me up and threw me away.
Malachi 2:13
This is another thing you do. You drown the LORD's altar with tears, weeping and wailing because he no longer accepts the offerings you bring him.
James 5:4
You have not paid any wages to those who work in your fields. Listen to their complaints! The cries of those who gather in your crops have reached the ears of God, the Lord Almighty.
they had
Job 16:4
If you were in my place and I in yours, I could say everything you are saying. I could shake my head wisely and drown you with a flood of words.
Job 19:21
You are my friends! Take pity on me! The hand of God has struck me down.
Job 19:22
Why must you persecute me the way God does? Haven't you tormented me enough?
Psalm 69:20
Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I had hoped for sympathy, but there was none; for comfort, but I found none.
Psalm 142:4
When I look beside me, I see that there is no one to help me, no one to protect me. No one cares for me.
Proverbs 19:7
Even the relatives of a poor person have no use for him; no wonder he has no friends. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot win any.
Lamentations 1:2
All night long she cries; tears run down her cheeks. Of all her former friends, not one is left to comfort her. Her allies have betrayed her and are all against her now.
Lamentations 1:9
Her uncleanness was easily seen, but she showed no concern for her fate. Her downfall was terrible; no one can comfort her. Her enemies have won, and she cries to the LORD for mercy.
Matthew 26:56
But all this has happened in order to make come true what the prophets wrote in the Scriptures." Then all the disciples left him and ran away.
2 Timothy 4:16
No one stood by me the first time I defended myself; all deserted me. May God not count it against them!
2 Timothy 4:17
But the Lord stayed with me and gave me strength, so that I was able to proclaim the full message for all the Gentiles to hear; and I was rescued from being sentenced to death.