OPPRESSION

Passages on this topic · 95

• Genesis 16:6

  But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

• Exodus 1:10

  Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”

• Exodus 1:11

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

• Exodus 1:12

  But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.

• Exodus 1:13

  The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

• Exodus 1:14

  and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

• Exodus 1:15

  The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,

• Exodus 1:16

  and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

• Exodus 1:17

  But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

• Exodus 1:18

  The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?”

• Exodus 1:19

  The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”

• Exodus 1:20

  God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

• Exodus 1:21

  Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

• Exodus 1:22

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

• Exodus 3:9

  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.

• Exodus 22:21

  “You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 22:22

  “You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

• Exodus 22:23

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

• Exodus 22:24

  and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

• Deuteronomy 23:15

  You shall not deliver to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you.

• Deuteronomy 23:16

  He shall dwell with you, among you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him.

• Deuteronomy 24:14

  You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers, or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.

• Deuteronomy 24:15

  In his day you shall give him his hire, 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.

• Deuteronomy 26:7

  Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.

• Judges 2:14

  Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

• 1 Kings 12:14

  and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

• Job 27:13

  “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

• Job 27:14

  If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

• Job 27:15

  Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

• Job 27:16

  Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

• Job 27:17

  he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

• Job 27:18

  He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

• Job 27:19

  He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

• Job 27:20

  Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

• Job 27:21

  The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.

• Job 27:22

  For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

• Job 27:23

  Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

• Psalms 9:9

  Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

• Psalms 10:17

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

• Psalms 10:18

  to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

• Psalms 12:5

  “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.”

• Psalms 17:9

  from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.

• Psalms 44:24

  Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

• Psalms 62:10

  Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

• Psalms 72:4

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

• Psalms 72:14

  He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

• Psalms 74:21

  Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

• Psalms 103:6

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

• Psalms 119:121

  I have done what is just and righteous. Don’t leave me to my oppressors.

• Psalms 119:134

  Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.

• Proverbs 3:31

  Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

• Proverbs 14:31

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

• Proverbs 22:22

  Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

• Proverbs 28:3

  A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

• Proverbs 30:14

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

• Ecclesiastes 4:1

  Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

• Ecclesiastes 5:8

  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.

• Ecclesiastes 7:7

  Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.

• Isaiah 1:17

  Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

• Isaiah 5:8

  Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

• Isaiah 33:15

  He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil —

• Isaiah 33:16

  he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

• Isaiah 38:14

  I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

• Isaiah 52:4

  For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.

• Isaiah 58:6

  “Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

• Jeremiah 21:12

  House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

• Jeremiah 22:17

  But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

• Jeremiah 50:34

  Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

• Ezekiel 22:7

  In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

• Ezekiel 22:29

  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.

• Ezekiel 45:9

  Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.

• Amos 4:1

  Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

• Amos 5:11

  Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

• Amos 5:12

  For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins — you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

• Amos 8:4

  Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

• Amos 8:5

  Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

• Amos 8:6

  that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”

• Micah 2:1

  Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

• Micah 2:2

  They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

• Micah 2:3

  Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

• Habakkuk 2:5

  Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

• Habakkuk 2:6

  Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

• Habakkuk 2:7

  Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

• Habakkuk 2:8

  Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

• Habakkuk 2:9

  Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

• Habakkuk 2:10

  You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

• Habakkuk 2:11

  For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

• Zechariah 7:10

  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.’

• Malachi 3:5

  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.

• Matthew 23:2

  saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat.

• Matthew 23:3

  All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.

• Matthew 23:4

  For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

• Acts 7:7

  ‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.’

• James 2:6

  But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

• James 5:4

  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.