Ecclesiastes 3:16
And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If thou see the oppression of a poor man, and the violent wresting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. For [a man] higher than the high is observing, and there are higher [men] than they.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression, for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.
Exodus 1:13-14
And the Egyptians made the sons of Israel to serve with rigor.
Exodus 1:16
And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birth-stool, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him, but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
Exodus 1:22
And Pharaoh ordered all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
Exodus 2:23-24
And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
Exodus 5:16-19
There is no straw given to thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick. And, behold, thy servants are beaten, but the fault it in thine own people.
Deuteronomy 28:33
The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall a nation eat up which thou know not. And thou shall only be oppressed and crushed always,
Deuteronomy 28:48
therefore thou shall serve thine enemies that LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he has destroyed thee.
Judges 4:3
And the sons of Israel cried to LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he mightily oppressed the sons of Israel twenty years.
Judges 10:7-8
And the anger of LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the sons of Ammon.
Nehemiah 5:1-5
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
Job 6:29
Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice. Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
Job 16:4
I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
Job 19:21-22
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
Job 24:7-12
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
Job 35:9
Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.
Psalm 10:9-10
He lurks in secret as a lion in his covert. He lays in wait to catch the poor man. He catches the poor man when he draws him in his net.
Psalm 12:5
Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for.
Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?
Psalm 42:9
I will say to God my rock, Why have thou forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalm 69:20
Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
Psalm 80:5
Thou have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
Psalm 102:8-9
My enemies reproach me all the day. Those who are mad against me do curse by me.
Psalm 142:4
Look on [my] right hand, and see, for there is no man who knows me. Refuge has failed me. No man cares for my soul.
Proverbs 19:7
All the brothers of a poor man hate him, how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues [with] words, [but] they are gone.
Proverbs 28:3
A needy man who oppresses the poor is a sweeping rain which leaves no food.
Proverbs 28:15-16
A roaring lion, and a ranging bear, [is] a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Ecclesiastes 7:7
Surely oppression makes the wise man foolish, and a bribe destroys the understanding.
Isaiah 51:23
And I will put it into the hand of those who afflict thee, who have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over, and thou have laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to those who go over.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Isaiah 59:13-15
transgressing and denying LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Malachi 2:13
And this again ye do: Ye cover the altar of LORD with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he does not regard the offering any more, nor receives it with good will at your hand.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the FALSE swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the f
Malachi 3:18
Then ye shall return and discern between the righteous man and the wicked man, between him who serves God and him who does not serve him.
Matthew 26:56
But all this has come to pass, so that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples fled, having forsook him.
2 Timothy 4:16-17
At my first defense no man came with me, but all forsook me. May it not be reckoned to them.
James 5:4
Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of Lord of hosts.