Equipping Your Church to Be Part of the Solution to Domestic Abuse
SCRIPTURES TO PRAY OVER the domestic Violence Epidemic
These are scriptures that we encourage you to pray over the epidemic of domestic abuse. They speak about God's heart of compassion for the oppressed.
• Exodus 3:7 I have heard them beg for My help because of the way they are being mistreated. I feel sorry for them. (CEV)
• Job 29:17 I broke the jaws of godless oppressors and plucked their victims from their teeth. (NLT)
• Psalm 7:11 God is a fair judge, a God who is angered by injustice every day. (GWT)
• Psalm 9:9 The LORD is a shelter for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. (NLT)
• Psalm 10:14 You take notice of trouble and suffering and are always ready to help. (GNT)
• Psalm 10:18 You will hear the cries of the oppressed and the orphans; You will judge in their favor, so that mortal men may cause terror no more. (GNT)
• Psalm 34:18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. (ESV)
• Psalm 72:4 May He grant justice to the people who are oppressed. May He save the children of needy people and crush their oppressor. (GWT)
• Psalm 72:14 He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their lives are precious to Him. (NLT)
• Psalm 76:9 You stand up to judge those who do evil, oh God, and to rescue the oppressed of the earth. (NLT)
• Psalm 82:3 Uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed. (BSB)
• Psalm 89:14 Equity and justice are the foundation of your throne. (NET)
• Psalm 97:10 He guards the lives of those who love Him, delivering them from domination by the wicked. (ISV)
• Psalm 103:6 For all who are mistreated, the Lord brings justice. (CEV)
• Psalm 119:134 Redeem me from man's oppression, that I may keep your precepts. (ESV)
• Psalm 146:7 The Lord sets the prisoners free. (ESV)
• Ecclesiastes 4:1 I observed all the oppression that takes place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, with no one to comfort them. The oppressors have great power, and their victims are helpless. (NLT)
• Isaiah 1:17 Pursue justice. Correct the oppressor. (CSB)
• Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? (NIV)
• Isaiah 58:9-10 If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. (NIV)
• Isaiah 61:1 He has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed and to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives, and release from darkness for the prisoners. (ISV)
• Jeremiah 22:3 Deliver him that is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor. (DRB)
• Ezekiel 34:10 I will rescue My sheep from their mouths, and My sheep will no longer be their food. (GWT)
• Luke 4:18 He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free. (NLT)
• Hebrews 13:3 Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them, and those ill-treated as though you too felt their torment. (NET)