79 Bible Verses About Standing Up for the Oppressed

How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

For thus saith the Lord God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

And the Lord sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

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

And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.

A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

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

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever:

In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)

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

He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

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

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.

But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath set the world upon them.

He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

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 the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

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

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

And the Lord delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephoth–maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.

For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.

He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

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

When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the Lord, then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.

Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O Lord.

The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

The Lord lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.

But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.

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.

After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:

Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

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.

For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:

And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

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

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