Topic
Oppression
76 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 3:9ISBE · Nave National, relieved
Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
- Deuteronomy 26:7ISBE · Nave National, relieved
And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
- Psalms 12:5ISBE · Nave God's help promised against
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.
- Psalms 44:24ISBE · Nave Prayers against
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
- Psalms 119:134ISBE · Nave Prayers against
Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
- Ecclesiastes 4:1ISBE · Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
- Ecclesiastes 5:8ISBE · Nave God will judge
¶ 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.
- Ecclesiastes 7:7ISBE · Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
¶ Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
- Jeremiah 22:17ISBE · Nave God will judge
But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
- Ezekiel 22:7ISBE · Nave God will judge
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
- Ezekiel 22:29ISBE · Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
- James 2:6ISBE · Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
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- Genesis 16:6 Nave INSTANCES OF — Of Hagar, by Sarah
- Exodus 1:10–22 Nave INSTANCES OF — Of Israelites, by Egyptians
- Exodus 5:1–23 Nave INSTANCES OF — Of Israelites, by Egyptians
- Exodus 22:21–24 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Deuteronomy 23:15 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Deuteronomy 23:16 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Deuteronomy 24:14 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Deuteronomy 24:15 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Judges 2:14 Nave National, relieved
- Judges 6:1–40 Nave National, relieved
- Judges 7:1–25 Nave National, relieved
- Judges 8:1–35 Nave National, relieved
- Judges 10:1–18 Nave National, relieved
- 1 Kings 12:14 Nave INSTANCES OF — Rehoboam resolves to oppress the Israelites
- 2 Kings 13:1–25 Nave National, relieved
- 2 Kings 13:4 ISBE
- Job 27:13–23 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Job 35:9 ISBE
- Job 36:15 ISBE
- Psalms 9:9 Nave God is a refuge from
- Psalms 10:17 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Psalms 10:18 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Psalms 17:9 Nave Prayers against
- Psalms 42:9 ISBE
- Psalms 43:2 ISBE
- Psalms 55:3 ISBE
- Psalms 62:10 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Psalms 72:4 Nave God's help promised against
- Psalms 72:14 Nave God's help promised against
- Psalms 74:21 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Psalms 103:6 Nave God will judge
- Psalms 119:121 Nave Prayers against
- Proverbs 3:31 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Proverbs 14:31 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Proverbs 22:22 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Proverbs 28:3 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Proverbs 30:14 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Isaiah 1:17 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Isaiah 5:7 ISBE
- Isaiah 5:8 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Isaiah 10:1–34 Nave God will judge
- Isaiah 30:20 ISBE
- Isaiah 33:15 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Isaiah 33:16 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Isaiah 38:14 Nave Prayers against
- Isaiah 52:4 Nave National, relieved
- Isaiah 58:6 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Isaiah 59:13 ISBE
- Jeremiah 6:6 ISBE
- Jeremiah 21:12 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Jeremiah 50:34 Nave God's help promised against
- Ezekiel 45:9 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Amos 4:1 Nave God will judge
- Amos 5:11 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Amos 5:12 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Amos 8:4–6 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Micah 2:1–3 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Micah 2:2 Nave God will judge
- Habakkuk 2:5–11 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Zechariah 7:10 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Malachi 3:5 Nave God will judge
- Matthew 23:2–4 Nave UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
- Acts 7:7 Nave National, God judges
- James 5:4 Nave God will judge
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 23 references
o-presh'-un: Used in the King James Version to translate a variety of Hebrew words, all of which, however, agree in the general sense of wrong done by violence to others. There are a few cases where the reference is to the oppression of Israel by foreigners, as by their Egyptian masters (Ex 3:9; De 26:7), or by Syria (2Ki 13:4), or by an unmentioned nation (Isa 30:20 King James Version, margin). In all these cases the Hebrew original is lachats. But in the vast number of cases the reference is to social oppression of one kind or another within Israel's own body. It is frequently theme of psalmist and prophet and wise man. The poor and weak must have suffered greatly at the hands of the stronger and more fortunate. The word lachats, various forms of the root `ashaq, and other words are used by the writers as they express their sorrow and indignation over the wrongs of their afflicted brethren. In his own sorrow, Job remembers the suffering of the oppressed (Job 35:9; 36:15); it is a frequent subject of song in the Psalms (Ps 12:5; 42:9; 43:2; 44:24; 55:3; 119:134); the preacher observes and reflects upon its prevalence (Ec 4:1; 5:8; 7:7 the King James Version); the prophets Amos (3:9), Isaiah (5:7; 59:13), Jeremiah (6:6; 22:17) and Ezekiel (22:7,29) thundered against it. It was exercised toward strangers and also toward the Israelites themselves, and was never wholly overcome. In Jas 2:6, "oppress" is the rendering of katadunasteuo, "to exercise harsh control over one," "to use one's power against one."
William Joseph Mcglothlin
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 70 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → God is a refuge from Ps 9:9
- → Prayers against Ps 17:9; 44:24; 119:121,134; Isa 38:14
- → God's help promised against Ps 12:5; 72:4,14; Jer 50:34
- → God will judge Ps 103:6; Ec 5:8; Isa 10; Jer 22:17; Eze 22:7; Am 4:1; Mic 2:2; Mal 3:5; Jas 5:4
- → National, God judges Ac 7:7
- → National, relieved Ex 3:9; De 26:7; Jud 2:14; 6; 7; 8; 10; 2Ki 13; Isa 52:4
- → INSTANCES OF
- Of Hagar, by Sarah Ge 16:6
- Of Israelites, by Egyptians Ex 1:10-22; 5
- Rehoboam resolves to oppress the Israelites 1Ki 12:14
- → UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO Ex 22:21-24; De 23:15,16; 24:14,15; Job 27:13-23; Ps 9:9; 10:17,18; 12:5; 62:10; 74:21; 119:134; Pr 3:31; 14:31; 22:22; 28:3; 30:14; Ec 4:1; 5:8; 7:7; Isa 1:17; 5:8; 33:15,16; 58:6; Jer 21:12; Eze 22:29; 45:9; Am 5:11,12; 8:4-6; Mic 2:1-3; Hab 2:5-11; Zec 7:10; Mt 23:2-4; Jas 2:6
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.