Best matchEcclesiastes 4:1
1 Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
Bible passages about “opression”
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Ezekiel 22:29
29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
Job 35:9
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
8 If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
Isaiah 10:1–2
1 Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees, 2 to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
Mark 13:17–19
17 How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! 18 Pray that this will not occur in the winter. 19 For those will be days of tribulation unmatched from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.
Book of Enoch 98:8
8 From henceforth ye know that all your oppression wherewith ye oppress is written down every day till the day of your judgement. (ENO)
Wisdom of Solomon 2:10
10 Let’s oppress the righteous poor. Let’s not spare the widow, nor regard the gray hair of the old man. (WEB)
Psalms 73:8
8 They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
2 Esdras 12:24
24 and over those who dwell in it, with much oppression, more than all those who were before them. Therefore they are called the heads of the eagle. (WEB)
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