Quotes about Oppression
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
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
— Amos 5:11
For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
— Amos 5:12
For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”
— Amos 6:14
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
— Amos 8:4
They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
— Micah 2:2
But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.
— Micah 2:8
You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.
— Micah 2:9
You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
— Micah 3:2
You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”
— Micah 3:3
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
— Habakkuk 1:4