Job 24:12

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?

When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, ‘These are Yahweh’s people, and have left his land.’

“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices, but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh will fall down. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out on the land of Egypt.

You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations.

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before the king of Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded man.

Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, “Don’t cry.”

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.