84 Bible Verses About Fighting Injustice

For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.

And the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them.

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.

And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.

Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.

But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:

Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

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.

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.

O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.

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;

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the Lord your God hath delivered them into your hand.

And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the Lord of Midian.

The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.

He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.

Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

For thus saith the Lord God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth–el.

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.

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.

I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

And Adoni–bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.