General References, Oppression, Unclassified Scriptures Relating To

Exodus 22:21

²¹ Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 22:22

²² Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Exodus 22:23

²³ If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

Exodus 22:24

²⁴ And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Deuteronomy 24:14

¹⁴ Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

Deuteronomy 24:15

¹⁵ At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.

Job 27:13

¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

Job 27:14

¹⁴ If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Job 27:15

¹⁵ Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

Job 27:16

¹⁶ Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

Job 27:17

¹⁷ He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Job 27:18

¹⁸ He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

Job 27:19

¹⁹ The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

Job 27:20

²⁰ Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Job 27:21

²¹ The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

Job 27:22

²² For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

Job 27:23

²³ Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

Psalms 9:9

⁹ The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

Psalms 10:17

¹⁷ LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

Psalms 10:18

¹⁸ To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Psalms 62:10

¹⁰ Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Proverbs 3:31

³¹ Envy thou not the oppressor, oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

Proverbs 14:31

³¹ He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

Isaiah 5:8

⁸ Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

Isaiah 1:17

¹⁷ Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 58:6

⁶ Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Isaiah 33:15

¹⁵ He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

Isaiah 33:16

¹⁶ He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

Ezekiel 22:29

²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression, oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

Amos 5:11

¹¹ Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

Amos 5:12

¹² For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

Habakkuk 2:5

⁵ Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

⁶ Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

Habakkuk 2:7

⁷ Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

Habakkuk 2:8

⁸ Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

Habakkuk 2:9

⁹ Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

Zechariah 7:10

¹⁰ And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

Malachi 3:5

⁵ And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

Matthew 23:2

² Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:

Matthew 23:3

³ All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

Matthew 23:4

⁴ For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

James 2:6

⁶ But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw draw you before the judgment seats?

James 5:4

⁴ Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

Jude 1:6

⁶ And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

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