Bible Verses About Oppression

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.

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

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.

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the Lord your God.

But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.

Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

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.

And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.

For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

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.

The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.

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

Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.

For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,

In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.

Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

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.