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Oppression

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Isaiah 33:15Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,Isaiah 33:16He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock are his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.Isaiah 38:14As a crane—a swallow—so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression is on me, be my surety.Isaiah 52:4For thus said the Lord Jehovah: ‘To Egypt My people went down at first to sojourn there, And Asshur—for nought he hath oppressed it.Isaiah 58:6Is not this the fast that I chose—To loose the bands of wickedness, To shake off the burdens of the yoke, And to send out the oppressed free, And every yoke ye draw off?Jeremiah 21:12O house of David, thus said Jehovah: Decide ye judgment at morning, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, Lest My fury go forth as fire, And hath burned, and none is quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.Jeremiah 22:17But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.Jeremiah 50:34Their Redeemer is strong, Jehovah of Hosts is His name, He doth thoroughly plead their cause, So as to cause the land to rest, And He hath given trouble to the inhabitants of Babylon.Amos 4:1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, Who are in the mountain of Samaria, Who are oppressing the poor, Who are bruising the needy, Who are saying to their lords: ‘Bring in, and we do drink.’Amos 5:11Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine.Amos 5:12For I have known—many are your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.Amos 8:4Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,Amos 8:5Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.Amos 8:6To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.Micah 2:1Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is—to God.Micah 2:2And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.Micah 2:3Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am devising against this family evil, From which ye do not remove your necks, Nor walk loftily, for a time of evil it is.Habakkuk 2:5And also, because the wine is treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,Habakkuk 2:6Do not these—all of them—against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe to him who is multiplying what is not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?Habakkuk 2:7Do not thy usurers instantly rise up, And those shaking thee awake up, And thou hast been for a spoil to them?Habakkuk 2:8Because thou hast spoiled many nations, Spoil thee do all the remnant of the peoples, Because of man’s blood, and of violence to the land, To the city, and to all dwelling in it.Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil,Habakkuk 2:10Thou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful is thy soul.Habakkuk 2:11For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it.Zechariah 7:10And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart.Malachi 3:5And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.Matthew 23:2saying, ‘On the seat of Moses sat down the scribes and the Pharisees;Matthew 23:3all, then, as much as they may say to you to observe, observe and do, but according to their works do not, for they say, and do not;Matthew 23:4for they bind together burdens heavy and grievous to be borne, and lay upon the shoulders of men, but with their finger they will not move them.Acts 7:7and the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and shall do Me service in this place.James 2:6and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;James 5:4lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you—doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;