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 you have they made light of father and mother: in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel 18:12
Has oppressed the poor and needy, has robbed by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the 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 take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.
Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are found wicked men: they lie in wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest everyone deals falsely.
Amos 3:10
For they know not to do right, says the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Micah 2:2
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so 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 they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
Oppressed
Ezekiel 22:7
In you have they made light of father and mother: in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Exodus 22:21
You shall neither wrong a stranger, nor oppress him: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23:9
Also you shall not oppress a stranger: for you know the heart of a stranger, seeing you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 19:33
And if a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him.
Psalm 94:6
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Matthew 25:43
I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and you visited me not.
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 assented, saying that these things were so.