| 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 28 3 |
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. |
| 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 10 2 |
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. |
| Ecclesiastes 7 7 |
Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart. |
| 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. |
| Proverbs 14 31 |
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. |
| Amos 8 4 |
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, |
| 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 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: |
| Exodus 23 9 |
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. |
| Jeremiah 7 6 |
If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: |
| 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. |
| Proverbs 22 16 |
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. |
| Exodus 22 21 |
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. |
| Ezekiel 39 26 |
After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. |
| Deuteronomy 15 11 |
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land. |
| Isaiah 16 4 |
Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. |
| 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. |
| Psalms 109 11 |
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. |
| Psalms 62 10 |
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. |
| Proverbs 29 7 |
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it. |
| Ezekiel 18 7 |
And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment; |
| Deuteronomy 28 33 |
The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: |
| Proverbs 16 29 |
A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good. |
| Psalms 74 21 |
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. |
| Micah 6 12 |
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. |
| Proverbs 5 10 |
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; |
| Proverbs 24 34 |
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man. |
| Proverbs 13 23 |
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment. |
| Proverbs 14 20 |
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends. |
| Proverbs 6 11 |
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. |
| Psalms 10 14 |
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. |
| Job 27 13 |
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. |
| James 2 6 |
But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? |
| Psalms 54 3 |
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah. |
| Ezekiel 38 12 |
To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. |
| Zechariah 7 10 |
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. |
| Job 31 16 |
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; |
| Malachi 3 9 |
Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. |
| 1 Samuel 12 4 |
And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand. |
| Numbers 33 55 |
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. |
| Proverbs 30 14 |
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. |
| Jeremiah 5 30 |
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; |
| Deuteronomy 9 6 |
Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people. |
| 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. |
| Ezekiel 22 12 |
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD. |
| Jeremiah 44 22 |
So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day. |
| Mark 14 7 |
For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. |