16 Bible Verses about Those Oppressed

And I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunk with their own blood, as with sweet wine; and all flesh shall know that I Jehovah am your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

"The Spirit of the Lord is on Me; because of this He has anointed Me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and new sight to the blind, to set at liberty those having been crushed,

And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Again, they have become few, and humbled through harshness, affliction, and sorrow.

To the Chief Musician. Concerning the silent dove, those far off. Of David, a secret treasure, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up; fighting daily, he presses me down.

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 its shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.

As for my people, children are their taskmasters, and women rule over them. Oh my people, your rulers cause you to go astray and destroy the way of your paths.

I will say to God my rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the cruelty of the enemy?

For You are the God of my strength; why do You cast me off? Why do I go mourning under the affliction of the enemy?

Ephraim is crushed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

And their enemies oppressed them, and they were humbled under their hand.

A Song of degrees. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth, Israel may now say; many times they have afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed over me. The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long.

So says Jehovah of Hosts: The sons of Israel and the sons of Judah were oppressed together. And all who captured them held them fast; they refused to let them go.

The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall be eaten up by a nation which you do not know. And you shall always be oppressed and crushed,

And He said to Abram, You must surely know that your seed shall be a stranger in a land not theirs, and shall serve them. And they shall afflict them four hundred years.

And God spoke in this way, that his seed would be a tenant in another land, and that they would enslave it and oppress it four hundred years.