Quotes about Oppression
Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
— Isaiah 10:1
to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
— Isaiah 10:2
Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
— Isaiah 10:4
I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
— Isaiah 10:6
On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.
— Isaiah 10:27
I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
— Isaiah 14:25
Feet trample it down—the feet of the oppressed, the steps of the poor.
— Isaiah 26:6
Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,
— Isaiah 30:12
I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
— Isaiah 38:14
I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
— Isaiah 47:6
Can the plunder be snatched from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?
— Isaiah 49:24
I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
— Isaiah 49:26