Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
People
General references
Bible References
People
Ezekiel 22:7
They have treated father and mother lightly within you. The alien they have oppressed in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.
Ezekiel 18:12
oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore a pledge, but lifts up his eyes to the idols and commits abomination,
Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel
And the men of Judah His delightful plant.
Thus He looked for justice, but behold,bloodshed;
For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
And the men of Judah His delightful plant.
Thus He looked for justice, but behold,
For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
Isaiah 10:2 So as to deprive the needy of justice
And rob the poor of My people of their rights,
Sothat widows may be their spoil
And that they may plunder theorphans.
And rob the poor of My people of their rights,
So
And that they may plunder the
Isaiah 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spokenfalsehood,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spoken
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
Jeremiah 5:26 ‘For wicked men are found among My people,
Theywatch like fowlers lying in wait;
They set a trap,
They catch men.
They
They set a trap,
They catch men.
Jeremiah 6:13 “For from the least of them even to the greatest of them,
Everyone isgreedy for gain,
And from the prophet even to the priest
Everyonedeals falsely.
Everyone is
And from the prophet even to the priest
Everyone
Amos 3:10
But they do not know how to do what is right,” declares the Lord, “these who hoard up violence and devastation in their citadels.”
Micah 2:2 They covet fields and then seize them,
And houses, and take them away.
Theyrob a man and his house,
A man and his inheritance.
And houses, and take them away.
They
A man and his inheritance.
Micah 3:3 Who eat the flesh of my people,
Strip off their skin from them,
Break their bones
Andchop them up as for the pot
And as meat in a kettle.”
Strip off their skin from them,
Break their bones
And
And as meat in a kettle.”
James 5:4
Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Oppressed
Ezekiel 22:7
They have treated father and mother lightly within you. The alien they have oppressed in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.
Exodus 22:21
“You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23:9
“You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 19:33
‘When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
Psalm 94:6 They slay the widow and the stranger
And murder the orphans.
And murder the orphans.
Matthew 25:43 I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.’
General references
Proverbs 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
And drink the wine of violence.
And drink the wine of violence.
Acts 24:9 The Jews also joined in the attack, asserting that these things were so.