Bible Verses About Oppression

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They that trouble me, will rejoice when I am moved:

There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his face: coals were kindled by it.

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

But they have sought my soul in vain, they shall go into the lower parts of the earth:

For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.

And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.

O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand.

¶ AIN. I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.

¶ Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

Envy not the unjust man, and do not follow his ways.

He that oppresseth the poor, upbraideth his maker: but he that hath pity on the poor, honoureth him.

He that oppresseth the poor, to increase his own riches, shall himself give to one that is richer, and shall be in need.

Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:

A poor man that oppresseth the poor, is like a violent shower, which bringeth a famine.

A generation that for teeth hath swords, and grindeth with their jaw teeth, to devour the needy from off the earth, and the poor from among men.

I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any.

Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.

For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity.

Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.

Woe to you that join house to house and lay field to field, even to the end of the place: shall you alone dwell in the midst of the earth?

He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil.

He shall dwell on high, the fortifications of rocks shall be his highness: bread is given him, his waters are sure.

I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.