I will feed oppressors with their own flesh. They will be intoxicated with their own blood as if by sweet wine. Everyone will know that I am Jehovah, your Savior and Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

The Spirit of Jehovah is upon me. He anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind. To set at liberty those who are bruised.

I will approach you people for judgment! I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers and those acting fraudulently with the wages of the worker, the widow and the fatherless. I will be a speedy witness against those who swear falsely and take advantage of the stranger, and do not show me reverence, said Jehovah of Hosts.

They became few in number and were humiliated because of oppression, disaster, and sorrow.

([Psalm of David]) Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled upon me. Fighting all day long he oppresses me.

He was oppressed and afflicted and yet he did not open his mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. He was silent like sheep ready to be sheared. He did not open his mouth.

Children oppress my people! Women rule over them. O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray. They confuse the direction of your paths.

I will ask God, my rock: Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk around in mourning while the enemy oppresses me?

You are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Ephraim is oppressed. He is crushed in judgment because he was content to walk after man's command.

Their enemies oppressed them and made them subject to their power.

Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say: Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up. Yet they have not prevailed against me. The plowers plowed upon my back. They lengthened their furrows.

Jehovah of Hosts says: All the people of Israel and Judah are oppressed. All their enemies have captured them. They refuse to let them go.

A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow. You will receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.

Jehovah said to Abram: Know this for sure; your offspring will be strangers (aliens) in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years.

God spoke to this effect, that his seed would be alien residents in a strange land. They would enslave them, and mistreat them for four hundred years.