Oppression

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

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

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

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

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

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, — read the full passage →

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

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 who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

In righteousness you shall be established: you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not be afraid; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.

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

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you. — read the full passage →

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

“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.”

Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. — read the full passage →

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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!”

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. — read the full passage →

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; — read the full passage →

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; — read the full passage →

“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God. — read the full passage →

In you have they set light by father and mother; in your midst have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

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

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

I will encamp around my house against the army, that no one pass through or return; and no oppressor will pass through them any more: for now I have seen with my eyes.

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

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

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. — read the full passage →

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

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

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Thus says Yahweh: Execute 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 foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

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.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear, — read the full passage →

Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

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

Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name. — read the full passage →

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.

For Yahweh of Armies said, “Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. — read the full passage →

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court; — read the full passage →

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.”

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed. — read the full passage →

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.

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. — read the full passage →

Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city! — read the full passage →

Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; — read the full passage →

For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies; “and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind my eyes therewith? I will restore it to you.”

Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found. — read the full passage →

When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,

Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow. — read the full passage →

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. — read the full passage →

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. — read the full passage →