Genesis 15:13

¹³ And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

Genesis 15:14

¹⁴ And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

Exodus 3:9

⁹ Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

Deuteronomy 27:19

¹⁹ Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

1 Samuel 8:10

¹⁰ And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.

¹¹ And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.

1 Samuel 8:12

¹² And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

1 Samuel 8:13

¹³ And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

1 Samuel 8:14

¹⁴ And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

1 Samuel 8:15

¹⁵ And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

1 Samuel 8:16

¹⁶ And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

1 Samuel 8:17

¹⁷ He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.

1 Samuel 8:18

¹⁸ And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.

2 Chronicles 28:19

¹⁹ For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.

Nehemiah 5:7

⁷ Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.

Nehemiah 5:8

⁸ And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.

Nehemiah 5:9

⁹ Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

Nehemiah 9:34

³⁴ Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.

Nehemiah 9:35

³⁵ For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

Nehemiah 9:36

³⁶ Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:

Nehemiah 9:37

³⁷ And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

Job 35:9

⁹ By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Job 24:22

²² He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

Job 24:24

²⁴ They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

Psalms 12:5

⁵ For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

Psalms 12:8

⁸ The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

Psalms 58:1

¹ To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.

Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

Psalms 58:2

² Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

Psalms 82:2

² How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

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 110:5

⁵ The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

Psalms 49:20

²⁰ Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

Psalms 94:20

²⁰ Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

Psalms 94:21

²¹ They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

Proverbs 29:2

² When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

Proverbs 29:4

⁴ The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.

Proverbs 17:15

¹⁵ He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

Proverbs 17:26

²⁶ Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

Proverbs 28:15

¹⁵ As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

Proverbs 28:16

¹⁶ The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

Proverbs 28:28

²⁸ When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.

Proverbs 29:12

¹² If a ruler hearken to lies, lies, all his servants are wicked.

Proverbs 30:21

²¹ For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:

Proverbs 30:22

²² For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

Ecclesiastes 4:1

¹ So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

⁸ If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

⁹ All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

Ecclesiastes 10:5

⁵ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:

Ecclesiastes 10:6

⁶ Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

Ecclesiastes 10:7

⁷ I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

¹⁶ And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

Ecclesiastes 3:17

¹⁷ I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

Ecclesiastes 4:13

¹³ Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

Ecclesiastes 4:14

¹⁴ For out of prison prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.

Ecclesiastes 10:16

¹⁶ Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

Ecclesiastes 10:17

¹⁷ Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

Isaiah 5:7

⁷ For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

Isaiah 1:23

²³ Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Isaiah 10:1

¹ Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

Isaiah 10:2

² To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Isaiah 10:3

³ 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?

Isaiah 14:4

⁴ That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

Isaiah 14:5

⁵ The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

Isaiah 14:6

⁶ He who smote the people in wrath with a continual continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

Isaiah 14:7

⁷ The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

Isaiah 14:8

⁸ Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

Isaiah 14:9

⁹ Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

Isaiah 3:12

¹² As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Isaiah 3:14

¹⁴ The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15

¹⁵ What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

Isaiah 33:1

¹ Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

Isaiah 52:5

⁵ Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

Isaiah 14:10

¹⁰ All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

Isaiah 14:11

¹¹ Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

Isaiah 14:12

¹² How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

Isaiah 14:13

¹³ For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

Isaiah 14:14

¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

Isaiah 14:15

¹⁵ Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

Isaiah 14:16

¹⁶ They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

Isaiah 14:17

¹⁷ That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

Isaiah 14:18

¹⁸ All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

Isaiah 14:19

¹⁹ But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

Isaiah 14:20

²⁰ Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

Isaiah 28:14

¹⁴ Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 28:15

¹⁵ Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

Isaiah 29:20

²⁰ For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

Isaiah 29:21

²¹ That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

Isaiah 30:33

³³ For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Isaiah 40:23

²³ That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

Isaiah 59:14

¹⁴ And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

Isaiah 59:15

¹⁵ Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased displeased him that there was no judgment.

Jeremiah 5:28

²⁸ They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

Jeremiah 5:29

²⁹ Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Ezekiel 22:6

⁶ Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

Ezekiel 28:2

² Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

Ezekiel 34:2

² Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

Ezekiel 34:3

³ Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

Ezekiel 34:4

⁴ The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

Ezekiel 34:7

⁷ Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

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