Job 5:15

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

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.

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

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

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;

Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says Yahweh.

For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

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

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.

Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.

Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

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

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

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

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

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.

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

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

Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.

so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

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

For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

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

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.

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.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

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.

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

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

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

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

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

Sing to Yahweh! Praise Yahweh, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

“ ‘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.

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

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.

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?” He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah.

For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.