Quotes about Oppression
Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst.
— Ezekiel 22:13
Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
— Ezekiel 22:27
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
— Ezekiel 22:29
Since you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak ones with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,
— Ezekiel 34:21
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’
— Ezekiel 45:9
He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.
— Daniel 7:25
The invader will do as he pleases, and no one will stand against him. He will establish himself in the Beautiful Land, with destruction in his hand.
— Daniel 11:16
Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.
— Hosea 8:10
I will chasten them when I please; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their double transgression.
— Hosea 10:10
They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
— Amos 2:7
Proclaim to the citadels of Ashdod and to the citadels of Egypt: “Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest in the city and the acts of oppression in her midst.”
— Amos 3:9
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
— Amos 4:1