Oppression

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Psalms 9:9 OT

  Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

• Psalms 17:9 OT

  from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.

• Psalms 44:24 OT

  Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

• Psalms 119:121 OT

  I have done what is just and righteous. Don’t leave me to my oppressors.

• Psalms 119:134 OT

  Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.

• Isaiah 38:14 OT

  I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

• Psalms 12:5 OT

  “Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

• Psalms 72:4 OT

  He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

• Psalms 72:14 OT

  He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

• Jeremiah 50:34 OT

  Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

• Psalms 103:6 OT

  Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

• Ecclesiastes 5:8 OT

  If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

• Isaiah 10:1-34 OT

  Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make…

• Jeremiah 22:17 OT

  But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

• Ezekiel 22:7 OT

  In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

• Amos 4:1 OT

  Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

• Micah 2:2 OT

  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.

• Malachi 3:5 OT

  I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and…

• James 5:4 NT

  Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

• Acts 7:7 NT

  ‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out, and serve me in this place.’

• Exodus 3:9 OT

  Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

• Deuteronomy 26:7 OT

  Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.

• Judges 2:14 OT

  Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

• Judges 6:1-40 OT

  The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, so Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made themselves the…