Nave’s Topical Bible
Oppression
63 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- God is a refuge from
- Prayers against
- God's help promised against
- God will judge
Psalms 103:6; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Isaiah 10; Jeremiah 22:17; Ezekiel 22:7; Amos 4:1; Micah 2:2; Malachi 3:5; James 5:4
- National, God judges
- National, relieved
Exodus 3:9; Deuteronomy 26:7; Judges 2:14; Judges 6; Judges 7; Judges 8; Judges 10; 2 Kings 13; Isaiah 52:4
- INSTANCES OF
- Of Hagar, by Sarah
- Of Israelites, by Egyptians
- Rehoboam resolves to oppress the Israelites
- UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Exodus 22:21-24; Deuteronomy 23:15-16; Deuteronomy 24:14-15; Job 27:13-23; Psalms 9:9; Psalms 10:17-18; Psalms 12:5; Psalms 62:10; Psalms 74:21; Psalms 119:134; Proverbs 3:31; Proverbs 14:31; Proverbs 22:22; Proverbs 28:3; Proverbs 30:14; Ecclesiastes 4:1; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Ecclesiastes 7:7; Isaiah 1:17; Isaiah 5:8; Isaiah 33:15-16; Isaiah 58:6; Jeremiah 21:12; Ezekiel 22:29; Ezekiel 45:9; Amos 5:11-12; Amos 8:4-6; Micah 2:1-3; Habakkuk 2:5-11; Zechariah 7:10; Matthew 23:2-4; James 2:6
Bible verses about “Oppression”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Psalms 9:9The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
- Psalms 17:9From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
- Psalms 44:24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
- Psalms 119:121I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
- Psalms 119:134Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
- Isaiah 38:14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
- Psalms 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
- Psalms 72:4He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
- Psalms 72:14He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
- Jeremiah 50:34Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
- Psalms 103:6The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
- Ecclesiastes 5:8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
- Jeremiah 22:17But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
- Ezekiel 22:7In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
- Amos 4:1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
- Micah 2:2And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
- Malachi 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
- James 5:4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
- Acts 7:7And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
- Exodus 3:9Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
- Deuteronomy 26:7And when we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
- Judges 2:14And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
- Isaiah 52:4For thus saith the Lord God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
- Genesis 16:6But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
- Exodus 1:10Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
- Exodus 1:11Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
- Exodus 1:12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 1:13And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
- Exodus 1:14And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
- Exodus 1:15And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
- Exodus 1:16And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
- Exodus 1:17But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
- Exodus 1:18And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
- Exodus 1:19And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
- Exodus 1:20Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
- Exodus 1:21And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
- Exodus 1:22And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
- 1 Kings 12:14And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
- Exodus 22:21Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 22:22Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.