Found 21 Results for: oppression

• He who practices virtue and speaks honestly, who spurns what is gained by oppression, Brushing his hands free of contact with a bribe, stopping his ears lest he hear of bloodshed, closing his eyes lest he look on evil-- (Isaiah 33, 15)

• In justice shall you be established, far from the fear of oppression, where destruction cannot come near you. (Isaiah 54, 14)

• Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer, you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am! If you remove from your midst oppression, false accusation and malicious speech; (Isaiah 58, 9)

• For thus says the LORD of hosts: Hew down her trees, throw up a siege mound against Jerusalem. Woe to the city marked for punishment; nought but oppression within her! (Jeremiah 6, 6)

• But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except on your own gain, On shedding innocent blood, on practicing oppression and extortion. (Jeremiah 22, 17)

• Judah has fled into exile from oppression and cruel slavery; Yet where she lives among the nations she finds no place to rest: All her persecutors come upon her where she is narrowly confined. (Lamentations 1, 3)

• "Fear not, my children; call upon God, who will deliver you from oppression at enemy hands. (Baruch 4, 21)

• Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is right and just! Stop evicting my people! says the Lord GOD. (Ezekiel 45, 9)

• Proclaim this in the castles of Ashdod, in the castles of the land of Egypt: "Gather about the mountain of Samaria, and see the great disorders within her, the oppression in her midst." (Amos 3, 9)