100 Bible Verses About Oppression

Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

And Moses said, Thus saith the Lord, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:

Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

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 there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?

And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.

And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.

Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.

And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.

They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.

And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.

And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)

Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,

Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.

And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.

And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.

Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.

The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,

And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage.

Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.

Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:

And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

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;

And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.

And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

Nevertheless the Lord raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:

And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.

For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.

O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.

Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.

And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the Lord, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.

Moreover the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:

Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

In all the signs and the wonders, which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,

And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.

Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man’s hand.

Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.

I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.