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
In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel 18:12
has wronged the poor and needy man, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
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.
Isaiah 10:2
to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lay in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness. And from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
Amos 3:10
For they do not know to do right, says LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Micah 2:2
And they covet fields, and seize them, and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Micah 3:3
who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
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.
Oppressed
Ezekiel 22:7
In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Exodus 22:21
And thou shall not wrong a sojourner, neither shall thou oppress him, for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23:9
And thou shall not oppress a sojourner, for ye know the heart of a sojourner, since ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 19:33
And if a stranger sojourns with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.
Psalm 94:6
They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless.
Matthew 25:43
I was a stranger, and ye did not take me in, naked, and ye did not clothe me, weak, and in prison, and ye did not come to help me.
General references
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Acts 24:9
And the Jews also agreed, claiming to have these things this way.