Exodus 1:14
making their lives bitter through hard labor with mortar, bricks, and all kinds of outdoor labor. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.
Exodus 2:23
The king of Egypt eventually died, and the Israelis groaned because of the bondage. They cried out, and their cry for deliverance from slavery ascended to God.
Exodus 6:9
Then Moses reported this to the Israelis, but they did not listen to Moses due to their irritation and impatience because there was no deliverance and because of the cruel bondage.
Numbers 20:15
Our ancestors went down to Egypt, where we lived for many years. But the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors viciously.
Acts 7:19
By shrewdly scheming against our people, he oppressed our ancestors and forced them to abandon their infants to the elements, so that they wouldn't live.
Psalm 81:6
I removed the burden from your shoulder; your hands were freed of the burdensome basket.
Acts 7:34
I have surely seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, I've heard their groans, and I've come down to rescue them. Now come, I'll send you to Egypt.'
Genesis 15:13
Then the LORD told Abram, "You can be certain about this: Your descendants will be foreigners in a land that isn't theirs. They will be slaves there and will be oppressed for 400 years.
Exodus 1:13
The Egyptians ruthlessly forced the Israelis to serve them,
Exodus 5:7-21
"You're no longer to give the people straw for making bricks, as in the past. They must gather straw for themselves.
Exodus 20:2
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt from the house of slavery.
Leviticus 25:43
You are not to rule over them with harshness. You are to fear your God."
Leviticus 25:46
You may give them as inherited property to your children after you, to own as properties in perpetuity. You may make bond slaves of them, but no one is to rule over his fellow Israeli with harshness.
Leviticus 25:53
Like a hired servant, he is to remain with him year after year, but he is not to rule over him with what you see as severity.
Deuteronomy 4:20
For the LORD took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace out of Egypt to be the people of his inheritance, as you are today.
Deuteronomy 26:6
"A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, who went down to Egypt and traveled there with very few family members, yet there he became a great, powerful, and populous nation. But the Egyptians oppressed us, afflicted us, and assigned us to hard labor.
Ruth 1:20
But Naomi replied, "Don't call me "Naomi'! Call me "Mara'! That's because the Almighty has dealt bitterly with me.
Psalm 68:13
When you men lie down among the sheepfolds, you are like the wings of the dove covered with silver, with its feathers in glittering gold."
Isaiah 14:6
that struck down nations in anger with unceasing blows, that oppressed nations in fury with relentless persecution.
Isaiah 51:23
But I will put it into the hands of those who tormented and oppressed you, those who said to you, "Lie down, so we can step over you,' so that you had to make your back like the ground, and like a street for them to walk over."
Isaiah 52:5
"Now therefore, what am I doing here," asks the LORD, "seeing that my people are taken away without cause? Those who rule over them are deluded," says the LORD, "and continuously, all the day long, my name is blasphemed.
Isaiah 58:6
Isn't this the fast that I have been choosing: to loose the bonds of injustice, and to untie the cords of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
Jeremiah 50:33-34
This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "The people of Israel are oppressed, along with the people of Judah. All their captors have held on to them and refused to let them go.
Micah 3:3
You eat the flesh of my people, flaying their skin from them. You break their bones, chopping them in pieces like meat for a pot, like meat destined for a soup kettle.'
Nahum 3:14
"Draw water, because a siege is coming! Strengthen your fortresses! Make the clay good and strong! Mix the mortar! Go get your brick molds!