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Ecclesiastes 3:16
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment,[ that] wickedness[ was] there; and the place of righteousness,[ that] iniquity[ was] there.
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Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts[ is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
If 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.
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James 5:4
Behold, 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.
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Lamentations 1:2
She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears[ are] on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort[ her]: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
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Lamentations 1:9
Her filthiness[ is] in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified[ himself].
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Matthew 26:56
But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
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Malachi 3:5
And 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.
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Isaiah 59:13-15
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.Yea, truth faileth; and he[ that] departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw[ it], and it displeased him that[ there was] no judgment.
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Psalms 142:4
I looked on[ my] right hand, and beheld, but[ there was] no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
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Exodus 5:16-19
There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants[ are] beaten; but the fault[ is] in thine own people.But he said, Ye[ are] idle,[ ye are] idle: therefore ye say, Let us go[ and] do sacrifice to the LORD.Go therefore now,[ and] work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.And the officers of the children of Israel did see[ that] they[ were] in evil[ case], after it was said, Ye shall not minish[ ought] from your bricks of your daily task.
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Psalms 42:9
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts[ are] thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction[ are] in their paths.
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Judges 10:7-8
And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that[ were] on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which[ is] in Gilead.
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Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where[ is] thy God?
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Job 24:7-12
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that[ they have] no covering in the cold.They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.They cause[ him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf[ from] the hungry;[ Which] make oil within their walls,[ and] tread[ their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly[ to them].
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Psalms 12:5
For 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.
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Nehemiah 5:1-5
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters,[ are] many: therefore we take up corn[ for them], that we may eat, and live.[ Some] also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute,[ and that upon] our lands and vineyards.Yet now our flesh[ is] as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and[ some] of our daughters are brought unto bondage[ already]: neither[ is it] in our power[ to redeem them]; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
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Psalms 69:20
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked[ for some] to take pity, but[ there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.
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Ecclesiastes 7:7
Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
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Job 16:4
I also could speak as ye[ do]: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
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Isaiah 51:23
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
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Psalms 102:8-9
Mine enemies reproach me all the day;[ and] they that are mad against me are sworn against me.For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
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Exodus 1:22
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
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Psalms 10:9-10
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.He croucheth,[ and] humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
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Malachi 3:18
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
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Judges 4:3
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
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Job 6:29
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness[ is] in it.
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Exodus 1:13-14
And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:And 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.
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Proverbs 19:7
All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth[ them with] words,[ yet] they[ are] wanting[ to him].
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Malachi 2:13
And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth[ it] with good will at your hand.
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Exodus 1:16
And 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.
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Psalms 80:5
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
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Job 19:21-22
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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Job 35:9
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make[ the oppressed] to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
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Proverbs 28:15-16
[ As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear;[ so is] a wicked ruler over the poor people.The prince that wanteth understanding[ is] also a great oppressor:[ but] he that hateth covetousness shall prolong[ his] days.
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Proverbs 28:3
A poor man that oppresseth the poor[ is like] a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
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2 Timothy 4 16-2 Timothy 4 17
At my first answer no man stood with me, but all[ men] forsook me:[ I pray God] that it may not be laid to their charge.Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and[ that] all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
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Deuteronomy 28:33
The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
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Exodus 2:23-24
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
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Deuteronomy 28:48
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all[ things]: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.