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Psa 12:5 — For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set [him] in safety [from him that] puffeth at him.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

oppression		Psa 10:12; Psa 74:21,22; Psa 79:10,11; Psa 146:7,8; Exd 2:23,24; Exd 3:7-9; Jdg 10:16; Pro 14:31; Pro 22:22,23; Ecc 4:1; Ecc 5:8; Isa 19:20; Eze 18:12,13,18; Jam 5:4
now		Isa 33:10; Mic 7:8,9
puffeth at		or, would ensnare. Psa 10:5; Job 5:15,21

Correlating Passages

oppression

	Psa 10:12	Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
	Psa 74:21	O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
	Psa 74:22	Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
	Psa 79:10	Wherefore should the heathen say, Where [is] their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight [by] the revenging of the blood of thy servants [which is] shed.
	Psa 79:11	Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
	Psa 146:7	Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
	Psa 146:8	The LORD openeth [the eyes of] the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
	Exd 2:23	And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
	Exd 2:24	And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
	Exd 3:7	And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
	Exd 3:8	And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
	Exd 3:9	Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
	Jdg 10:16	And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
	Pro 14:31	He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
	Pro 22:22	Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
	Pro 22:23	For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
	Ecc 4:1	So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of [such as were] oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors [there was] power; but they had no comforter.
	Ecc 5:8	If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for [he that is] higher than the highest regardeth; and [there be] higher than they.
	Isa 19:20	And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
	Eze 18:12	Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
	Eze 18:13	Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
	Eze 18:18	[As for] his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did [that] which [is] not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
	Jam 5:4	Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

now

	Isa 33:10	Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
	Mic 7:8	Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me.
	Mic 7:9	I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness.

puffeth at

	Psa 10:5	His ways are always grievous; thy judgments [are] far above out of his sight: [as for] all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
	Job 5:15	But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
	Job 5:21	Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

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Scott, Thomas. "Psalms 12:5," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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