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Psalm 10:12

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

10The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
11He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
12Arise, LORD! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.
13Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account”?
14But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
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“Arise, LORD!” carries the urgency of seeing helpless people crushed while those who harm them assume God will never call them to account.

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Where else Scripture says this

7 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 12:5“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD; “I will set him in safety from those who …Psalm 10 asks God to arise for the helpless; Psalm 12 records his promise to arise because of oppression.
Psalm 3:7Arise, LORD! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.Both cry, “Arise, LORD!” for intervention against the wicked; Psalm 3 includes violent language about God striking enemies.
Psalm 13:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?Both prayers speak to God about being forgotten, with Psalm 10 pleading for the helpless and Psalm 13 asking how long.
Micah 5:9Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.Both use a lifted hand as an image of strength against opposition, though Psalm 10 addresses God.
Psalm 9:12For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.Psalm 10 pleads that God will remember the helpless; Psalm 9 declares that he does not forget the afflicted.
Isaiah 33:10“Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.Psalm 10 asks God to arise; Isaiah records the LORD declaring that he will arise and be exalted.
Isaiah 26:11LORD, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.Both speak of the LORD’s lifted hand amid harm and opposition; Isaiah describes adversaries who fail to see it.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. feeling distant from God. waiting.

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Pray for one person who is being harmed

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Encouragement

You do not need calm words to pray for someone being crushed. This cry is addressed to the God who sees trouble and grief.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).