| Ecclesiastes 7 7 |
Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Psalms 73 6 |
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Deuteronomy 26 7 |
And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression: |
| Proverbs 28 3 |
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. |
| Proverbs 14 31 |
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. |
| Psalms 142 6 |
Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. |
| 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 14 28 |
In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince. |
| Isaiah 38 14 |
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. |
| 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 51 13 |
And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? |
| Psalms 44 24 |
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? |
| Psalms 10 2 |
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. |
| Proverbs 21 13 |
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard. |
| Psalms 62 10 |
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. |
| Exodus 3 9 |
Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. |
| Psalms 119 122 |
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. |
| Isaiah 53 7 |
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. |
| 1 Samuel 8 9 |
Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them. |
| Psalms 74 21 |
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. |
| Proverbs 28 16 |
The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days. |
| Psalms 74 23 |
Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually. |
| Proverbs 29 2 |
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. |
| Psalms 45 5 |
Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. |
| Proverbs 10 6 |
Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. |
| Proverbs 22 16 |
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. |
| Ecclesiastes 8 9 |
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. |
| Leviticus 25 17 |
Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God:for I am the LORD your God. |
| Jeremiah 22 17 |
But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. |
| 2 Corinthians 10 4 |
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; |
| 2 Peter 2 19 |
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. |
| Psalms 146 7 |
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners: |
| Numbers 10 9 |
And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies. |
| 1 Corinthians 4 12 |
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: |
| Lamentations 2 11 |
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. |
| Mark 4 17 |
And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended. |
| Psalms 119 121 |
I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors. |
| Lamentations 1 16 |
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. |
| Psalms 37 17 |
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous. |
| Psalms 8 2 |
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. |
| Zechariah 10 4 |
Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together. |
| Isaiah 5 15 |
And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: |
| 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. |
| Job 31 38 |
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; |
| Ezekiel 7 11 |
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: neither shall there be wailing for them. |