Quotes about Oppression
I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”
— Isaiah 51:23
For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.
— Isaiah 52:4
And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.
— Isaiah 52:5
By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
— Isaiah 53:8
In righteousness you will be established, far from oppression, for you will have no fear. Terror will be far removed, for it will not come near you.
— Isaiah 54:14
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
— Isaiah 57:15
“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.
— Isaiah 58:3
Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
— Isaiah 58:6
rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
— Isaiah 59:13
The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
— Isaiah 60:14
Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
— Jeremiah 2:14
They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
— Jeremiah 5:28