Quotes About Oppression

With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak.

Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!

For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Then another king, who knew nothing of Joseph, arose over Egypt.

He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him.

I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.í

But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

When the girlís owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the marketplace.

The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered that they be stripped and beaten with rods.

and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels

He chose to suffer oppression with Godís people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.

But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?

You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.