Quotes about Oppression
if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
- Jeremiah 7:6
“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
- Jeremiah 22:17
The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.
- Jeremiah 37:15
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “The sons of Israel are oppressed, and the sons of Judah as well. All their captors hold them fast, refusing to release them.
- Jeremiah 50:33
They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 50:42
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
- Lamentations 3:7
To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
- Lamentations 3:34
Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
- Lamentations 3:52
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
- Lamentations 5:8
Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
- Lamentations 5:12
He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.
- Ezekiel 18:12
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
- Ezekiel 22:7