Ecclesiastes 5:8 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 5:8

8: If you see a poor person being oppressed by the powerful and justice being miscarried throughout the land, don't be surprised! For every official is under orders from higher up, and matters of justice only get lost in red tape and bureaucracy.

Psalms 12:5

  1. 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."

Ecclesiastes 4:1

  1. Again I observed all the oppression that takes place in our world. I saw the tears of the oppressed, with no one to comfort them. The oppressors have great power, and the victims are helpless.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

  1. I also noticed that throughout the world there is evil in the courtroom. Yes, even the courts of law are corrupt!

1 Kings 21:19

  1. Give him this message: `This is what the LORD says: Isn't killing Naboth bad enough? Must you rob him, too? Because you have done this, dogs will lick your blood outside the city just as they licked the blood of Naboth!'"
  2. "So my enemy has found me!" Ahab exclaimed to Elijah. "Yes," Elijah answered, "I have come because you have sold yourself to what is evil in the LORD's sight.

Revelation 17:6

  1. I could see that she was drunk--drunk with the blood of God's holy people who were witnesses for Jesus. I stared at her completely amazed.
  2. "Why are you so amazed?" the angel asked. "I will tell you the mystery of this woman and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns.

Psalms 82:1

  1. God presides over heaven's court; he pronounces judgment on the judges:

Job 27:8

  1. For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off and takes away their life?
  2. Will God listen to their cry when trouble comes upon them?
  3. Can they take delight in the Almighty? Can they call to God at any time?
  4. "I will teach you about God's power. I will not conceal anything that concerns the Almighty.
  5. But I don't need to, for you yourselves have seen all this; yet you are saying all these useless things to me.

Malachi 3:5

  1. At that time I will put you on trial. I will be a ready witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me," says the LORD Almighty.

James 5:2

  1. Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. You have spent your years on earth in luxury, satisfying your every whim. Now your hearts are nice and fat, ready for the slaughter.
  5. You have condemned and killed good people who had no power to defend themselves against you.

Micah 3:9

  1. Listen to me, you leaders of Israel! You hate justice and twist all that is right.
  2. You are building Jerusalem on a foundation of murder and corruption.
  3. You rulers govern for the bribes you can get; you priests teach God's laws only for a price; you prophets won't prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim you are depending on the LORD. "No harm can come to us," you say, "for the LORD is here among us."
  4. So because of you, Mount Zion will be plowed like an open field; Jerusalem will be reduced to rubble! A great forest will grow on the hilltop, where the Temple now stands.

Isaiah 3:15

  1. How dare you grind my people into the dust like that!" demands the Lord, the LORD Almighty.

Isaiah 5:7

  1. This is the story of the LORD's people. They are the vineyard of the LORD Almighty. Israel and Judah are his pleasant garden. He expected them to yield a crop of justice, but instead he found bloodshed. He expected to find righteousness, but instead he heard cries of oppression.

Micah 2:1

  1. 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.
  2. 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!
  3. 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."

Isaiah 46:10

  1. Only I can tell you what is going to happen even before it happens. Everything I plan will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish.
  2. I will call a swift bird of prey from the east--a leader from a distant land who will come and do my bidding. I have said I would do it, and I will.

Micah 3:1

  1. Listen, you leaders of Israel! You are supposed to know right from wrong,
  2. but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
  3. You eat my people's flesh, cut away their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.
  4. 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!

Psalms 55:9

  1. Destroy them, Lord, and confuse their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

Isaiah 57:15

  1. The high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, the Holy One, says this: "I live in that high and holy place with those whose spirits are contrite and humble. I refresh the humble and give new courage to those with repentant hearts.

Acts 4:27

  1. "That is what has happened here in this city! For Herod Antipas, Pontius Pilate the governor, the Gentiles, and the people of Israel were all united against Jesus, your holy servant, whom you anointed.
  2. In fact, everything they did occurred according to your eternal will and plan.

Isaiah 59:13

  1. We know that we have rebelled against the LORD. We have turned our backs on God. We know how unfair and oppressive we have been, carefully planning our deceitful lies.
  2. Our courts oppose people who are righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth falls dead in the streets, and fairness has been outlawed.
  3. Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who tries to live a godly life is soon attacked. The LORD looked and was displeased to find that there was no justice.
  4. He was amazed to see that no one intervened to help the oppressed. So he himself stepped in to save them with his mighty power and justice.

Psalms 95:3

  1. For the LORD is a great God, the great King above all gods.

Psalms 58:10

  1. The godly will rejoice when they see injustice avenged. They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
  2. Then at last everyone will say, "There truly is a reward for those who live for God; surely there is a God who judges justly here on earth."

Zechariah 8:6

  1. "This is what the LORD Almighty says: All this may seem impossible to you now, a small and discouraged remnant of God's people. But do you think this is impossible for me, the LORD Almighty?

Isaiah 37:36

  1. That night the angel of the LORD went out to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 Assyrian troops. When the surviving Assyrians woke up the next morning, they found corpses everywhere.

Luke 1:35

  1. The angel replied, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the baby born to you will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God.

Micah 6:10

  1. Will there be no end of your getting rich by cheating? The homes of the wicked are filled with treasures gained by dishonestly measuring out grain in short measures.
  2. And how can I tolerate all your merchants who use dishonest scales and weights?
  3. The rich among you have become wealthy through extortion and violence. Your citizens are so used to lying that their tongues can no longer tell the truth.
  4. "Therefore, I will wound you! I will bring you to ruin for all your sins.

Habakkuk 1:2

  1. How long, O LORD, must I call for help? But you do not listen! "Violence!" I cry, but you do not come to save.
  2. Must I forever see this sin and misery all around me? Wherever I look, I see destruction and violence. I am surrounded by people who love to argue and fight.

James 2:13

  1. For there will be no mercy for you if you have not been merciful to others. But if you have been merciful, then God's mercy toward you will win out over his judgment against you.

Isaiah 10:12

  1. After the Lord has used the king of Assyria to accomplish his purposes in Jerusalem, he will turn against the king of Assyria and punish him--for he is proud and arrogant.

Psalms 10:17

  1. LORD, you know the hopes of the helpless. Surely you will listen to their cries and comfort them.
  2. You will bring justice to the orphans and the oppressed, so people can no longer terrify them.

Psalms 140:11

  1. Don't let liars prosper here in our land. Cause disaster to fall with great force on the violent.
  2. But I know the LORD will surely help those they persecute; he will maintain the rights of the poor.

Psalms 83:18

  1. until they learn that you alone are called the LORD, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth.

Matthew 13:41

  1. I, the Son of Man, will send my angels, and they will remove from my Kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil,
  2. and they will throw them into the furnace and burn them. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Isaiah 10:5

  1. "Destruction is certain for Assyria, the whip of my anger. Its military power is a club in my hand.
  2. Assyria will enslave my people, who are a godless nation. It will plunder them, trampling them like dirt beneath its feet.
  3. But the king of Assyria will not know that it is I who sent him. He will merely think he is attacking my people as part of his plan to conquer the world.

Zechariah 7:9

  1. "This is what the LORD Almighty says: Judge fairly and honestly, and show mercy and kindness to one another.
  2. Do not oppress widows, orphans, foreigners, and poor people. And do not make evil plans to harm each other.
  3. "Your ancestors would not listen to this message. They turned stubbornly away and put their fingers in their ears to keep from hearing.
  4. They made their hearts as hard as stone, so they could not hear the law or the messages that the LORD Almighty had sent them by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. That is why the LORD Almighty was so angry with them.
  5. "Since they refused to listen when I called to them, I would not listen when they called to me, says the LORD Almighty.

Jeremiah 22:17

  1. "But you! You are full of selfish greed and dishonesty! You murder the innocent, oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly."
  2. Therefore, this is the LORD's decree of punishment against King Jehoiakim, who succeeded his father, Josiah, on the throne: "His family will not weep for him when he dies. His subjects will not even care that he is dead.
  3. He will be buried like a dead donkey--dragged out of Jerusalem and dumped outside the gate!

Habakkuk 1:12

  1. O LORD my God, my Holy One, you who are eternal--is your plan in all of this to wipe us out? Surely not! O LORD our Rock, you have decreed the rise of these Babylonians to punish and correct us for our terrible sins.
  2. You are perfectly just in this. But will you, who cannot allow sin in any form, stand idly by while they swallow us up? Should you be silent while the wicked destroy people who are more righteous than they?

Ezekiel 22:6

  1. "Every leader in Israel who lives within your walls is bent on murder.
  2. Fathers and mothers are contemptuously ignored. Resident foreigners are forced to pay for protection. Orphans and widows are wronged and oppressed.
  3. Inside your walls you despise my holy things and violate my Sabbath days of rest.
  4. People accuse others falsely and send them to their death. You are filled with idol worshipers and people who take part in lewd activities.
  5. Men sleep with their fathers' wives and have intercourse with women who are menstruating.

Acts 12:23

  1. Instantly, an angel of the Lord struck Herod with a sickness, because he accepted the people's worship instead of giving the glory to God. So he was consumed with worms and died.

Proverbs 8:17

  1. "I love all who love me. Those who search for me will surely find me.

Micah 2:9

  1. You have evicted women from their homes and stripped their children of all their God-given rights.

Amos 8:4

  1. Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample the needy!
  2. You can't wait for the Sabbath day to be over and the religious festivals to end so you can get back to cheating the helpless. You measure out your grain in false measures and weigh it out on dishonest scales.
  3. And you mix the wheat you sell with chaff swept from the floor! Then you enslave poor people for a debt of one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.
  4. Now the LORD has sworn this oath by his own name, the Pride of Israel: "I will never forget the wicked things you have done!

Amos 6:12

  1. Can horses gallop over rocks? Can oxen be used to plow rocks? Stupid even to ask--but that's how stupid you are when you turn justice into poison and make bitter the sweet fruit of righteousness.

1 Chronicles 21:15

  1. And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But just as the angel was preparing to destroy it, the LORD relented and said to the death angel, "Stop! That is enough!" At that moment the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
  2. David looked up and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth with his sword drawn, stretched out over Jerusalem. So David and the leaders of Israel put on sackcloth to show their distress and fell down with their faces to the ground.

Amos 5:12

  1. For I know the vast number of your sins and rebellions. You oppress good people by taking bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

Luke 1:76

  1. "And you, my little son, will be called the prophet of the Most High, because you will prepare the way for the Lord.

Acts 12:7

  1. Suddenly, there was a bright light in the cell, and an angel of the Lord stood before Peter. The angel tapped him on the side to awaken him and said, "Quick! Get up!" And the chains fell off his wrists.
  2. Then the angel told him, "Get dressed and put on your sandals." And he did. "Now put on your coat and follow me," the angel ordered.
  3. So Peter left the cell, following the angel. But all the time he thought it was a vision. He didn't realize it was really happening.
  4. They passed the first and second guard posts and came to the iron gate to the street, and this opened to them all by itself. So they passed through and started walking down the street, and then the angel suddenly left him.

Luke 1:32

  1. He will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David.

Amos 6:2

  1. Go over to Calneh and see what happened there. Then go to the great city of Hamath and on down to the Philistine city of Gath. You are no better than they were, and look at how they were destroyed.
  2. You push away every thought of coming disaster, but your actions only bring the day of judgment closer.
  3. How terrible it will be for you who sprawl on ivory beds surrounded with luxury, eating the meat of tender lambs and choice calves.
  4. You sing idle songs to the sound of the harp, and you fancy yourselves to be great musicians, as King David was.
  5. You drink wine by the bowlful, and you perfume yourselves with exotic fragrances, caring nothing at all that your nation is going to ruin.

Romans 11:33

  1. Oh, what a wonderful God we have! How great are his riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his methods!

1 Peter 4:12

  1. Dear friends, don't be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you.

1 John 3:13

  1. So don't be surprised, dear brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.

Job 20:19

  1. For he oppressed the poor and left them destitute. He foreclosed on their homes.
  2. He was always greedy but never satisfied. Of all the things he dreamed about, nothing remains.
  3. Nothing is left after he finishes gorging himself; therefore, his prosperity will not endure.
  4. "In the midst of plenty, he will run into trouble, and disasters will destroy him.
  5. May God give him a bellyful of trouble. May God rain down his anger upon him.
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