Discovery Box| (0.60) | Isa 52:4 |
| For this is what the sovereign Lord says: “In the beginning my people went to live temporarily in Egypt; Assyria oppressed them for no good reason. |
| (0.60) | Isa 58:10 |
| You must 1 actively help the hungry and feed the oppressed. 2 Then your light will dispel the darkness, 3 and your darkness will be transformed into noonday. 4 |
| (0.60) | Eze 22:7 |
| They have treated father and mother with contempt 1 within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow 2 within you. |
| (0.50) | Gen 15:13 |
| Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain 1 that your descendants will be strangers 2 in a foreign country. 3 They will be enslaved and oppressed 4 for four hundred years. |
| (0.50) | Gen 29:32 |
| So Leah became pregnant 1 and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, 2 for she said, “The Lord has looked with pity on my oppressed condition. 3 Surely my husband will love me now.” |
| (0.50) | Deu 28:29 |
| You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; 1 you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you. |
| (0.50) | Deu 28:33 |
| As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives. |
| (0.50) | Jdg 4:3 |
| The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, because Sisera 1 had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels, 2 and he cruelly 3 oppressed the Israelites for twenty years. |
| (0.50) | Jdg 6:9 |
| I rescued you from Egypt’s power 1 and from the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave their land to you. |
| (0.50) | Psa 9:13 |
| when they prayed: 1 “Have mercy on me, 2 Lord! See how I am oppressed by those who hate me, 3 O one who can snatch me away 4 from the gates of death! |
| (0.50) | Psa 12:5 |
| “Because of the violence done to the oppressed, 1 because of the painful cries 2 of the needy, I will spring into action,” 3 says the Lord. “I will provide the safety they so desperately desire.” 4 |
| (0.50) | Psa 102:1 |
| The prayer of an oppressed man, as he grows faint and pours out his lament before the Lord. O Lord, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my cry for help! 2 |
| (0.50) | Ecc 4:1 |
| So 1 I again considered 2 all the oppression 3 that continually occurs 4 on earth. 5 This is what I saw: 6 The oppressed 7 were in tears, 8 but no one was comforting them; no one delivers 9 them from the power of their oppressors. |
| (0.50) | Isa 10:2 |
| to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive 1 the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans. 2 |
| (0.50) | Isa 38:14 |
| Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo 1 like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. 2 O sovereign master, 3 I am oppressed; help me! 4 |
| (0.50) | Isa 41:17 |
| The oppressed and the poor look for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched from thirst. I, the Lord, will respond to their prayers; 1 I, the God of Israel, will not abandon them. |
| (0.50) | Isa 58:6 |
| No, this is the kind of fast I want. 1 I want you 2 to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, 3 and to break every burdensome yoke. |
| (0.50) | Isa 58:7 |
| I want you 1 to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. 2 When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood! 3 |
| (0.50) | Jer 50:33 |
| The Lord who rules over all 1 says, “The people of Israel are oppressed. So too are the people of Judah. 2 All those who took them captive are holding them prisoners. They refuse to set them free. |
| (0.50) | Eze 22:29 |
| The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the foreigner who lives among them and denied them justice. 1 |
