that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!"
Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
It will be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the LORD because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them.
He said, "You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest."
Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;
He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--
I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security."
I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."
and have forgotten the LORD your Maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
For thus says the Lord the LORD, "My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.
He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth.
He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
In righteousness you shall be established: you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not be afraid; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.
"Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
For the LORD of Armies said, "Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
House of David, thus says the LORD, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Thus says the LORD: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.
Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all who oppress them.
He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land.
Thus says the LORD of Armies: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.
or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand?' or, 'Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?'
Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
"By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
We can't reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.
I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."
When the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it grieved the LORD because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.
The children of Israel cried to the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land;
They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year: eighteen years [oppressed they] all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
"If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against the LORD, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,
then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,
"'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. "'The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says the LORD of Armies.
They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.
But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,
yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.
for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before the LORD your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: the LORD gives sight to the eyes of both.
the LORD will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.
"Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."
from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.
I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.
He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.
the LORD executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.
Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand.
Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
I have done what is just and righteous. Don't leave me to my oppressors.
Ensure your servant's well-being. Don't let the proud oppress me.
Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.
who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. the LORD frees the prisoners.
I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God's Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
"I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.
oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'
I will encamp around my house against the army, that none pass through or return; and no oppressor will pass through them any more: for now I have seen with my eyes.
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