58 Bible Verses about Oppression, Nature Of

From the oppression of the poor, from the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, Jehovah will say; I will set with salvation, he will puff at him.

In the pride of the unjust he will burn the poor: they shall be taken in the devices that they purposed.

Ye strengthened not the sickly, and the diseased ye healed not, and the broken ye bound not up, and the thrust away ye turned not back, and the lost ye sought not; and with force and with oppression ye ruled them.

Thou shalt not strip the poor because he is poor: and thou shalt not crush the humble in the gate. For Jehovah will contend their contention, and rob the soul to those robbing them.

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy needy in his cause.

When the needy shall be among thee, from one of thy brethren, in one of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, and thou shalt not shut thy hand from thy needy brother.

The rich one will rule over the poor, and he borrowing, a servant to the man lending.

He giving to the poor wants not: and he hiding his eyes increased curses.

The people of the land oppressed with violence and stripped off robbery, and oppressed the poor and needy, and did violence to the stranger without judgment

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn it back, for their selling the just one for silver and the needy for shoes; Panting for the dust of the earth upon the head of the poor, and they will turn away the way of the humble: and a man and his father will go to the same young girl to profane my holy name:

For this, because of your treading upon the poor one, and ye will take away the liftings up of wheat from him: ye built houses of hewn stone, and ye shall not dwell in them; ye planted vineyards of desire and ye shall not drink their wine. For I knew your many transgressions, and your strong sins: pressing upon the just, taking a ransom, and they turned away the needy in the gate

Hear this, ye, panting after the needy, to cause the humble of the, land to cease.

And the widow and the orphan, the stranger and the poor, ye shall not oppress; and ye shall not purpose evil in your heart a man to his brother.

And ye have despised the beggar. Do not the rich bring you into subjection, and draw you before tribunals?

Every widow and orphan ye shall not afflict.

Thou shalt not turn away the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless; and thou shalt not take as a pledge the garment of the widow.

They will lead away the ass of the orphans, and they will take for pledge, the widow's ox.

If I lifted up my hand against the orphan when I shall see, my help in the gate:

They will break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, and they will afflict thine inheritance. The widow and the stranger they will slay, and they will kill the orphan.

Thou shalt not remove the old bound; and into the field of the orphans thou shalt not come:

Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.

Ye shall not oppress the stranger, the orphan and the widow, and innocent blood ye shall not pour out in this place, and after other gods ye shall not go, for evil to you;

And I came near to you for judgment: and I was a swift witness against those practicing magic, and against those committing adultery, and against those swearing to falsehood, and against those oppressing the hire of the hireling, the widow and the orphan, and those turning aside the stranger, and they feared not me, said Jehovah of armies.

They eating in widows' houses, and praying long for a pretext: these shall receive more abundant judgment.

Thou shalt not treat evil the stranger, and thou shalt not press him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

And he will say to Abram, Knowing thou shalt know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in the land not to them; and they shall serve them and they shall humble them four hundred years.

Thou shalt not press the stranger: and ye knew the soul of the stranger, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt

And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not oppress him. As the native among you shall be to you the stranger sojourning with you; thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I Jehovah your God.

Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian' for thou wert a stranger in his land.

The widow and the stranger they will slay, and they will kill the orphan.

Thus said Jehovah, Do ye judgment and justice, and deliver him taken by force, from the hand of him oppressing: ye shall not be violent, ye shall not oppress the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, and ye shall not pour but innocent blood in this place.

Thou shalt not oppress the poor and needy hireling from thy brethren, or from thy stranger which is in thy land in thy gates. In his day thou shalt give his hire, and the sun shall not go down upon it, for he is poor, and he lifted up his soul to it; and he will cry against thee to Jehovah, and it was sin in thee.

And Abram will say to Sarai, Behold thy maid servant in thy hand; do to her the good in thine eyes. And Sarai shall afflict her, and she will flee from her face.

And they will set over them leaders of the tributes in order to afflict them in their burdens. And they will build cities of stores for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses

And now behold the cry of the sons of Israel came to me: and also I saw the oppression which the Egyptians oppressed them.

Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbor, and thou shalt not rob: the wages of the hireling shall not remain with thee till morning.

For what did we fast, and thou sawest not? we humbled our soul and thou wilt not know? Behold, in the day of your fasting ye will find desire, and ye will exact all your labors.

And having seen a certain one injured, he defended, and did vengeance for him harassed, having struck the Egyptian,

Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

The torn I brought not to thee; I shall bear the blame of it; from my hand thou will seek it, thefts of the day, and thefts of the night

And a new king will arise over Egypt, who will not know Joseph. And he will say to his people, Behold, the people of the sons of Israel, many, being strong above us. Come, we will be wise with them, lest they shall multiply, and it was when war shall happen, and also being added to our armies and fighting against us, and they went up from the land.read more.
And they will set over them leaders of the tributes in order to afflict them in their burdens. And they will build cities of stores for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses And as they will afflict them, so they will multiply and will increase. And they will feel disgust from the face of the sons of Israel. And the Egyptians will make the sons of Israel serve by oppression. And they will embitter their lives by hard work in clay, and in bricks, and in all work in the field: all their work in which they made them serve by oppression. And the king of Egypt will say to the midwives of the Hebrews, of whom the name of the one Shiprah, and the name of the second, Puah; And he will say, In the delivering the Hebrew women, and seeing upon the stools, if it is a son, ye shall kill him; and if it is a daughter, preserve alive. And the midwives will fear God, and they did not according to what the king of Egypt said to them, and they will preserve alive the boys. And the king of Egypt will call to the midwives, and will say to them, Wherefore did ye this word, and ye will preserve alive the boys? And the midwives will say to Pharaoh, That the Hebrewesses are not as the Egyptian women, for they giving life before the midwives shall come in to them, and they will bring forth. And God will do well to the midwives, and the people will multiply and be greatly strong. And it will be because the midwives will fear God, and he will make houses for them. And Pharaoh will command to all the people, saying, Every son being brought forth ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall preserve alive.

Thus said the Lord Jehovah, My people at first went down to Egypt to sojourn there, and Assur oppressed them for nothing.

As a cane full of birds, so their houses full of deceit: for this they were magnified and they will be rich. They became fat, they shone: they passed over words of evil: they judged not judgment, the judgment of the orphan, and they will give success; and the judgment of the needy they judged not.

Lest he shall drink and forget what is prescribed, and change the judgment of all the sons of affliction.

To turn away the judgment of the powerless, and to strip off judgment of the distressed of my people, for widows to be their plunder, and they will plunder orphans.

For thine eyes and thy heart not but for thy plunder and for guiltless blood to pour out, and for oppression and for running, to do.

Hear this word, ye heifers of Bashan, which are upon the mountain of Shomeron, oppressing the poor, breaking in pieces the needy, saying to their lords, Bring, and we will drink.

Come, we will be wise with them, lest they shall multiply, and it was when war shall happen, and also being added to our armies and fighting against us, and they went up from the land.

And he will speak to them according to the counsel of the children, saying, My father wade heavy your yoke, and I will add upon it: my father corrected you with whips, and I with scorpions.

And Asa will be indignant to the seer, and he will give him to the house of the stocks, for he was in anger with him for this And Asa will oppress from the people in that time.

A roaring lion and a greedy bear the unjust one ruling over a poor people.

Every widow and orphan ye shall not afflict. If afflicting, thou shalt afflict him, if crying, he shall cry to me, hearing, I will hear his cry. And my anger kindling, I killed you with the sword; and your wives were widows, and your sons orphans.

Cursing he turning away the judgment of the stranger, the orphan and the widow: and all the people said, Amen.

He stopping his ear from the cry of the poor one also himself shall call and shall not be answered.

Jehovah broke in pieces the rod of the unjust, the rod of the rulers. Striking the peoples in wrath a blow not removed, bringing down the nations in anger; pursuing, not sparing.

For thus said Jehovah of armies, Cut off the wood, and throw up a mound against Jerusalem: this the city to be reviewed; oppression is wholly in her midst

Thus said Jehovah, Do ye judgment and justice, and deliver him taken by force, from the hand of him oppressing: ye shall not be violent, ye shall not oppress the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, and ye shall not pour but innocent blood in this place. For if doing, ye shall do this word, and kings came into the gates of this house, sitting to David upon his throne, riding in chariots and upon horses, he send his servants and his people. And if ye will not bear these words, by myself I sware, says Jehovah, that this house shall be for a desolation.

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn back for their threshing Gilead with threshing-sledges of iron.