TOPICAL STUDY

OPPRESSION

EXO 22:21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were

strangers in the land of Egypt.

EXO 22:22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

EXO 22:23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will

surely hear their cry;

EXO 22:24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and

your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

DEU 23:15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped

from his master unto thee:

DEU 23:16 He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he

shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not

oppress him.

DEU 24:14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy,

whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within

thy gates:

DEU 24:15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go

down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against

thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.

JOB 27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of

oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

JOB 27:14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring

shall not be satisfied with bread.

JOB 27:15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows

shall not weep.

JOB 27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the

clay;

JOB 27:17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent

shall divide the silver.

JOB 27:18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper

maketh.

JOB 27:19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth

his eyes, and he is not.

JOB 27:20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in

the night.

JOB 27:21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm

hurleth him out of his place.

JOB 27:22 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of

his hand.

JOB 27:23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his

place.

PSA 9:9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of

trouble.

PSA 10:17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare

their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

PSA 10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth

may no more oppress.

PSA 12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will

I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

PSA 62:10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches

increase, set not your heart upon them.

PSA 74:21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise

thy name.

PSA 119:134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

PRO 3:31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

PRO 14:31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that

honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

PRO 22:22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted

in the gate:

PRO 28:3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which

leaveth no food.

PRO 30:14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth

as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

ECC 4:1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under

the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no

comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no

comforter.

ECC 5:8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of

judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is

higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

ECC 7:7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the

heart.

ISA 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the

fatherless, plead for the widow.

ISA 33:15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that

despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of

bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from

seeing evil;

ISA 33:16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions

of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

ISA 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of

wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and

that ye break every yoke?

JER 21:12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the

morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest

my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil

of your doings.

EZE 22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery,

and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger

wrongfully.

EZE 45:9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel:

remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your

exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.

AMO 5:11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take

from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not

dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine

of them.

AMO 5:12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they

afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate

from their right.

AMO 8:4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the

land to fail,

AMO 8:5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the

sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel

great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

AMO 8:6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

MIC 2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when

the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their

hand.

MIC 2:2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take

them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

MIC 2:3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise

an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go

haughtily: for this time is evil.

HAB 2:5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither

keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot

be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all

people:

HAB 2:6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting

proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his!

how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

HAB 2:7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that

shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

HAB 2:8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people

shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of

the city, and of all that dwell therein.

HAB 2:9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may

set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

HAB 2:10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and

hast sinned against thy soul.

HAB 2:11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the

timber shall answer it.

ZEC 7:10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the

poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

MAT 23:2 Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:

MAT 23:3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do;

but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

MAT 23:4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on

men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their

fingers.

JAM 2:6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw

you before the judgment seats?