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

Oppressed

General references

Bible References

People

James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the laborers who reaped your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, crieth out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

Oppressed

Matthew 25:43
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

General references

Acts 24:9
And the Jews also joined in the charges against him, affirming that these things were so.