Psalms 103:6 Cross References

Psalms 103:6

6: The LORD gives righteousness and justice to all who are treated unfairly.

The LORD replies, "I have seen violence done to the helpless, and I have heard the groans of the poor. Now I will rise up to rescue them, as they have longed for me to do."

"Never take advantage of poor laborers, whether fellow Israelites or foreigners living in your towns.
Pay them their wages each day before sunset because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they might cry out to the LORD against you, and it would be counted against you as sin.

Fathers and mothers are contemptuously ignored. Resident foreigners are forced to pay for protection. Orphans and widows are wronged and oppressed.

who gives justice to the oppressed and food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners.

"This is what the wicked will receive from God; this is their inheritance from the Almighty.
If they have a multitude of children, their children will die in war or starve to death.
Those who survive will be brought down to the grave by a plague, with no one to mourn them, not even their wives.
"Evil people may have all the money in the world, and they may store away mounds of clothing.
But the righteous will wear that clothing, and the innocent will divide all that money.

Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who help the poor honor him.

But you do see the trouble and grief they cause. You take note of it and punish them. The helpless put their trust in you. You are the defender of orphans.
Break the arms of these wicked, evil people! Go after them until the last one is destroyed!
The LORD is king forever and ever! Let those who worship other gods be swept from the land.
LORD, you know the hopes of the helpless. Surely you will listen to their cries and comfort them.
You will bring justice to the orphans and the oppressed, so people can no longer terrify them.

Look here, you rich people, weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you.
Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags.
Your gold and silver have become worthless. The very wealth you were counting on will eat away your flesh in hell. This treasure you have accumulated will stand as evidence against you on the day of judgment.
For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The wages you held back cry out against you. The cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
You have spent your years on earth in luxury, satisfying your every whim. Now your hearts are nice and fat, ready for the slaughter.

but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
You eat my people's flesh, cut away their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.
Then you beg the LORD for help in times of trouble! Do you really expect him to listen? After all the evil you have done, he won't even look at you!

Help him to defend the poor, to rescue the children of the needy, and to crush their oppressors.

He will rescue the poor when they cry to him; he will help the oppressed, who have no one to defend them.

There are hired murderers, loan racketeers, and extortioners everywhere! They never even think of me and my commands, says the Sovereign LORD.
"But now I clap my hands in indignation over your dishonest gain and bloodshed.
How strong and courageous will you be in my day of reckoning? I, the LORD, have spoken! I will do what I have said.

"No, the kind of fasting I want calls you to free those who are wrongly imprisoned and to stop oppressing those who work for you. Treat them fairly and give them what they earn.
I want you to share your food with the hungry and to welcome poor wanderers into your homes. Give clothes to those who need them, and do not hide from relatives who need your help.

and if you stop exploiting foreigners, orphans, and widows; and if you stop your murdering; and if you stop worshiping idols as you now do to your own harm.
Then I will let you stay in this land that I gave to your ancestors to keep forever.
" `Do you think that because the Temple is here you will never suffer? Don't fool yourselves!
Do you really think you can steal, murder, commit adultery, lie, and worship Baal and all those other new gods of yours,
and then come here and stand before me in my Temple and chant, "We are safe!"--only to go right back to all those evils again?

And yet, you insult the poor man! Isn't it the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?

How terrible it will be for you who lie awake at night, thinking up evil plans. You rise at dawn and hurry to carry out any of the wicked schemes you have power to accomplish.
When you want a certain piece of land, you find a way to seize it. When you want someone's house, you take it by fraud and violence. No one's family or inheritance is safe with you around!
But this is what the LORD says: "I will reward your evil with evil; you won't be able to escape! After I am through with you, none of you will ever again walk proudly in the streets."

Don't steal the land of defenseless orphans by moving the ancient boundary markers,

you will taunt the king of Babylon. You will say, "The mighty man has been destroyed. Yes, your insolence is ended.
For the LORD has crushed your wicked power and broken your evil rule.
You persecuted the people with unceasing blows of rage and held the nations in your angry grip. Your tyranny was unrestrained.
But at last the land is at rest and is quiet. Finally it can sing again!
Even the trees of the forest--the cypress trees and the cedars of Lebanon--sing out this joyous song: `Your power is broken! No one will come to cut us down now!'

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