Trouvé 48 Résultats pour: oppressed

• Yahweh acts with uprightness, with justice to all who are oppressed; (Psalms 103, 6)

• gives justice to the oppressed, gives food to the hungry; Yahweh sets prisoners free. (Psalms 146, 7)

• When Judas and the people heard this, they held a great assembly to decide what should be done for their oppressed countrymen who were under attack from their enemies. (1 Maccabees 5, 16)

• When Jonathan and the people heard these proposals, they put no faith in them and refused to accept them, remembering what great wrongs Demetrius had done to Israel and how cruelly he had oppressed them. (1 Maccabees 10, 46)

• They called on the Lord to have regard for the people oppressed on all sides, to take pity on the Temple profaned by the godless, (2 Maccabees 8, 2)

• When your majesty has taken note of all these points, may it please you to make provision for the welfare of our country and our oppressed nation, as befits the gracious benevolence you extend to all; (2 Maccabees 14, 9)

• a breed with swords for teeth, with knives for jaws, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from the land. (Proverbs 30, 14)

• Then again, I contemplate all the oppression that is committed under the sun. Take for instance the tears of the oppressed. No one to comfort them! The power their oppressors wield. No one to comfort them! (Ecclesiastes 4, 1)

• If in a province you see the poor oppressed, fair judgement and justice violated, do not be surprised, for over every official there watches a higher official, and over these, higher officials still. (Ecclesiastes 5, 7)

• But being oppressed drives a sage mad, and a present corrupts the heart. (Ecclesiastes 7, 7)

• Then the upright will stand up boldly to face those who had oppressed him and had thought so little of his sufferings. (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 1)

• Save the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor, and do not be mean-spirited in your judgements. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 9)