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 “oppression”
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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.
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)
Judges 10:8
8 who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.
Psalms 106:42
42 Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand.
Mark 13:19
19 For those will be days of tribulation unmatched from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.
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.
Psalms 94:5
5 They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.
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