Job 34:28

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

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

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.

Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.

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

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.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

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.

He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

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

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Her gates shall lament and mourn. She shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

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.

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

When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

The men who didn’t die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

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.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

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

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

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

For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me.

Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line. He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall lament. They languish together.

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

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

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

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.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

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

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

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

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.

Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.

“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.”

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

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

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

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

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

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 heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.

From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

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.

“Judah mourns, and its gates languish. They sit in black on the ground. The cry of Jerusalem goes up.