Quotes About Oppression

No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ëMake bricks!í Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”

“You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied. “Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ëLet us go and sacrifice to the LORD.í

The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”

When they left Pharaoh, they confronted Moses and Aaron, who stood waiting to meet them.

“May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!”

Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and You have not delivered Your people in any way.”

“Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his land.”

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaohís heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go.

But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time as well, and he would not let the people go.

But if you continue to restrain them and refuse to let them go,

Pharaoh sent officials and found that none of the livestock of the Israelites had died. But Pharaohís heart was hardened, and he would not let the people go.

Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.

Pharaohís officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is in ruins?”

Then Pharaoh told them, “May the LORD be with you if I ever let you go with your little ones. Clearly you are bent on evil.

But the LORD hardened Pharaohís heart, and he would not let the Israelites go.

Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaohís heart so that he would not let the Israelites go out of his land.

For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ëThey are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.í

And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out defiantly.

You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”

how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers,

Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.