60 Bible Verses about Oppression, God's Attitude To
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And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor man. And let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.
Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate. For LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.
For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor, if ye do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own hurt, then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers from of old even for evermore.
The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the profane. Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings? He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly. He who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil.
He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the sons of the needy, and will break in pieces the oppressor.
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write perverseness, to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? To whom will ye flee for help? And where will ye leave your glory?
He who mocks a poor man reproaches his maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it, therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have sold a righteous man for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes--
Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. And they covet fields, and seize them, and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. Therefore thus says LORD: Behold, I devise an evil against this family, from which ye shall not remove your necks, nor shall ye walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.
Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and rapine. The prey departs not.
But woe to you Pharisees! Because ye tithe mint and rue and every plant, and pass by justice and the love of God. It is necessary to do these things, and not to neglect those things.
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner in giving him food and raiment.
He raises up the poor out of the dust, he lifts up the needy from the dunghill, to make them sit with rulers, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are LORD's, and he has set the world upon them.
who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. LORD releases the prisoners. LORD opens [the eyes of] the blind. LORD raises up those who are bowed down. LORD loves the righteous. LORD preserves the sojourners. He upholds the fatherless and widow. But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
LORD will also be a high tower for the oppressed, a high tower in times of trouble.
LORD, thou have heard the desire of the humble. Thou will prepare their heart, thou will cause thine ear to hear, to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may no more be appalling.
Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Thus says LORD of hosts: The sons of Israel and the sons of Judah are oppressed together, and all who took them captive hold them firm; they refuse to let them go. Their Redeemer is strong. LORD of hosts is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
And LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the A And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel have come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
Then thou shall say to thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt, and LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like thee, who delivers a poor man from him who is too strong for him, yea, a poor and needy man from him who robs him?
Then they cried to LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Then they cry to LORD in their trouble, and he saves them out of their distresses.
Say thou not, I will recompense evil. Wait for LORD, and he will save thee.
And it shall come to pass in the day that LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service in which thou were made to serve, that thou shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased!
And I will feed those who oppress thee with their own flesh. And they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine. And all flesh shall know that I, LORD, am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Having looked, I saw the oppression of my people in Egypt, and I heard their groaning, and I came down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
And the sons of Israel cried to LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he mightily oppressed the sons of Israel twenty years.
And the sons of Ammon passed over the Jordan to also fight against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was exceedingly distressed. And the sons of Israel cried to LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baalim.
if they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which thou gave to their fathers, and the city which thou have cho then hear thou from heaven, even from thy dwelling-place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their case, and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee.
I will say to God my rock, Why have thou forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in thee. Yea, in the shadow of thy wings I will take refuge until calamities be passed by.
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee. According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those who are appointed to death,
Judge the poor man and the orphan. Do justice to the afflicted and destitute man. Rescue the poor and needy man. Deliver from the hand of the wicked man.
O LORD, thou God to whom vengeance belongs, thou God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth. Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth. Render to the proud a recompense. LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?read more.
They prate, they speak arrogantly. All the workers of iniquity boast themselves. They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thy heritage. They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless. And they say, LORD will not see, nor will the God of Jacob consider.
And they cried out in a great voice, saying, Master, Holy and True, how long do thou not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell on the earth?
Now toward midnight Paul and Silas, while praying, were singing praises to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth.
As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after thee, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou will revive me. Thou will stretch forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand will save me.
For our slight momentary affliction works for us an eternal weight of glory from extraordinariness to extraordinariness,
but in everything commending ourselves as helpers of God, in much perseverance, in afflictions, in necessities, in restrictions, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hungerings,
Therefore also let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust their souls as to a faithful Creator by well-doing.
And thou shall not glean thy vineyard, nor shall thou gather the fallen fruit of thy vineyard. Thou shall leave them for the poor man and for the sojourner. I am LORD your God.
When thou reap thy harvest in thy field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, thou shall not go again to fetch it. It shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that LORD thy God may bless thee in all th When thou beat thine olive tree, thou shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. When thou gather of thy vineyard, thou shall not glean it behind thee. It shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Open thy mouth for the mute, in the cause of all such as are left desolate. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the poor and needy.
Then thou shall call, and LORD will answer, thou shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take the yoke away from the midst of thee, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly, and if thou draw out thy soul to a hungry man, and satisfy an afflicted soul, then thy light shall rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday.
Thus says LORD: Execute ye justice and righteousness. And deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong. Do no violence to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in t
Thus LORD of hosts has spoken, saying, Execute TRUE justice, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
But when thou do charity, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand does,
Then the King will say to those at his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat. I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink. I was a stranger, and ye took me in, naked, and ye clothed me. I was feeble, and ye came to help me. I was in prison, and ye came to me.read more.
Then the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, and fed thee, or thirsting, and gave thee drink? And when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in, or naked, and clothed thee? And when did we see thee weak, or in prison, and came to thee?
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