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? ============================== THE LECTRONIC IBRARY ECHANGE P.O. BOX 19454 DENVER, COLORADO 80219 BBS: 303-935-6323 FIDONET: 1:104/810.0 THENET: 8:7703/11.0 End Of File