| Ezekiel 22 29 |
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. |
| Psalms 82 3 |
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. |
| Ecclesiastes 5 8 |
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. |
| Job 35 9 |
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. |
| Ecclesiastes 7 7 |
Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart. |
| Isaiah 59 14 |
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. |
| Ecclesiastes 4 1 |
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. |
| Proverbs 22 22 |
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: |
| Proverbs 19 4 |
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour. |
| Proverbs 13 23 |
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment. |
| Isaiah 42 22 |
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. |
| Micah 2 2 |
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. |
| Proverbs 11 24 |
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. |
| Proverbs 3 31 |
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways. |
| Proverbs 28 3 |
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. |
| Job 29 16 |
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. |
| Proverbs 29 7 |
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it. |
| Psalms 10 2 |
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. |
| Proverbs 14 31 |
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. |
| Jeremiah 5 30 |
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; |
| Psalms 103 6 |
The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. |
| Psalms 107 39 |
Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. |
| Lamentations 4 8 |
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. |
| James 3 16 |
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. |
| Isaiah 3 12 |
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. |
| Proverbs 31 9 |
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. |
| Romans 3 16 |
Destruction and misery are in their ways: |
| Jeremiah 8 21 |
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. |
| Proverbs 22 2 |
The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all. |
| Isaiah 24 11 |
There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. |
| Job 24 4 |
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. |
| Isaiah 23 9 |
The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. |
| Isaiah 1 7 |
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. |
| Psalms 74 21 |
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. |
| 2 Corinthians 8 2 |
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. |
| Psalms 146 7 |
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners: |
| Amos 8 4 |
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, |
| Psalms 119 121 |
I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors. |
| Isaiah 1 17 |
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. |
| Isaiah 3 5 |
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. |
| Genesis 43 1 |
And the famine was sore in the land. |
| Amos 5 12 |
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. |
| Psalms 69 22 |
Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. |
| Proverbs 28 2 |
For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged. |
| Malachi 3 9 |
Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. |
| Job 30 12 |
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. |
| Ecclesiastes 5 13 |
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. |
| Jeremiah 3 24 |
For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. |
| Psalms 44 24 |
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? |
| Psalms 69 33 |
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. |