Jeremiah 50:33
Thus says the LORD of hosts: "The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.
Isaiah 14:17
who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who did not release his prisoners to their home?"
Isaiah 58:6
"Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
Exodus 5:2
Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go."
Exodus 8:2
If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs:
Exodus 9:2-3
For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
Exodus 9:17-18
as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't let them go.
Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you showed them no mercy; on the aged you have very heavily laid your yoke.
Isaiah 49:24-26
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?
Isaiah 51:23
and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, 'Bow down, that we may walk over you;' and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to those who walk over."
Isaiah 52:4-6
For thus says the LORD, "My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there, and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Jeremiah 34:15-18
You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
Jeremiah 50:7
All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, "We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of righteousness, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers."
Jeremiah 50:17-18
'Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
Jeremiah 51:34-36
'Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.
Zechariah 1:15-16
I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but only a little angry, but they added to the calamity."