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 35:9–12
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty. 10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night, 11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’ 12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Book of Enoch 98:6–8
6 I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, by the Holy Great One, That all your evil deeds are revealed in the heavens, And that none of your deeds of oppression are covered and hidden. (ENO) 7 And do not think in your spirit nor say in your heart that ye do not know and that ye do not see that every sin is every day recorded in heaven in the presence of the Most High. (ENO) 8 From henceforth ye know that all your oppression wherewith ye oppress is written down every day till the day of your judgement. (ENO)
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.
Wisdom of Solomon 2:10–12
10 Let’s oppress the righteous poor. Let’s not spare the widow, nor regard the gray hair of the old man. (WEB) 11 But let our strength be a law of righteousness; for that which is weak is proven useless. (WEB) 12 But let’s lie in wait for the righteous man, because he annoys us, is contrary to our works, reproaches us with sins against the law, and charges us with sins against our training. (WEB)
Psalms 106:41–42
41 He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them. 42 Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand.
Psalms 94:3–6
3 How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult? 4 They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast. 5 They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage. 6 They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
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.
Ezekiel 22:7
7 Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
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