TOPICAL BIBLE
Oppression
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Genesis 16:6But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.Exodus 1:10Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”Exodus 1:11Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.Exodus 1:12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.Exodus 1:13The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,Exodus 1:14and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.Exodus 1:15The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,Exodus 1:16and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”Exodus 1:17But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.Exodus 1:18The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?”Exodus 1:19The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”Exodus 1:20God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.Exodus 1:21It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.Exodus 1:22Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”Exodus 3:9Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.Exodus 22:21“You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.Exodus 22:22“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.Exodus 22:23If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;Exodus 22:24and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.Deuteronomy 23:15You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you:Deuteronomy 23:16he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him.Deuteronomy 24:14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:Deuteronomy 24:15in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.Deuteronomy 26:7and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression;Judges 2:14The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.1 Kings 12:14and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”Job 27:13“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.Job 27:14If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.Job 27:15Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.Job 27:16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;Job 27:17he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.Job 27:18He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.Job 27:19He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.Job 27:20Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.Job 27:21The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.Job 27:22For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.Job 27:23Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.Psalm 9:9Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.Psalm 10:17Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,Psalm 10:18to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.Psalm 12:5“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.”Psalm 17:9from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.Psalm 44:24Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?Psalm 62:10Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.Psalm 72:4He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.Psalm 72:14He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.Psalm 74:21Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.Psalm 103:6Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.Psalm 119:121I have done what is just and righteous. Don’t leave me to my oppressors.Psalm 119:134Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.Proverbs 3:31Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.Proverbs 14:31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.Proverbs 22:22Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;Proverbs 28:3A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.Proverbs 30:14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.Ecclesiastes 4:1Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.Ecclesiastes 5:8If 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.Ecclesiastes 7:7Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.Isaiah 1:17Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”Isaiah 5:8Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
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