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 workmen who mowed down your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, is crying out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Oppressed

Matthew 25:43
I was a stranger, and ye took Me not in; naked, and ye did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and ye did not look after Me.'

General references

Acts 24:9
And the Jews also assented, affirming that these things were so.