Bible Verses About Struggles of the Oppressed

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.

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

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

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.

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.

And when we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:

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

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

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.

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

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.

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 Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

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

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

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

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

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

Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

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

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

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

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.

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

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

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

All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

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

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

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.