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
I tell you that the pay of the labourers who have gathered in your crops--pay which you are keeping back--is calling out against you; and the outcries of those who have been your reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of the armies of Heaven.

Oppressed

Matthew 25:43
when homeless, you gave me no welcome; ill-clad, you clothed me not; sick or in prison, you visited me not.'

General references

Acts 24:9
The Jews also joined in the charge, maintaining that these were facts.