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Oppressed and starving he will wander the country; and, once starving, he will become frenzied and curse his king and his God; turning his gaze upward, (Isaiah 8, 21)
The oppressed and needy search for water, and there is none, their tongue is parched with thirst. I, Yahweh, shall answer them, I, the God of Israel, shall not abandon them. (Isaiah 41, 17)
For the Lord Yahweh says this, 'Long ago my people went to Egypt and settled there as aliens; finally Assyria oppressed them for no reason. (Isaiah 52, 4)
Is not this the sort of fast that pleases me: to break unjust fetters, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break all yokes? (Isaiah 58, 6)
Yahweh Sabaoth says this: The people of Israel are oppressed (and the people of Judah too), all their captors hold them fast, they will not let them go. (Jeremiah 50, 33)
in you people have despised their fathers and mothers; in you they have ill-treated the settler; in you they have oppressed the widow and orphan. (Ezekiel 22, 7)
The people of the country have taken to extortion and banditry; they have oppressed the poor and needy and ill-treated the settler in a way that is unjustifiable. (Ezekiel 22, 29)
Ephraim is oppressed, crushed by the sentence, for having deliberately followed a Lie. (Hosea 5, 11)
because they have crushed the heads of the weak into the dust and thrust the rights of the oppressed to one side, father and son sleeping with the same girl and thus profaning my holy name, (Amos 2, 7)
Listen to this, you who crush the needy and reduce the oppressed to nothing, (Amos 8, 4)
The spirit of the Lord is on me, for he has anointed me to bring the good news to the afflicted. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives, sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, (Luke 4, 18)
The actual words God used when he spoke to him are that his descendants would be exiles in a land not their own, where they would be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years. (Acts 7, 6)