Popular Bible Verses about Oppression - Page 4

Found 50 Verses (from 31)

Proverbs 24:2

Bible Rank: 23,336

For their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about making trouble. NIV

For their minds plot oppression and devise violence, and their lips talk of causing trouble and vexation. AMP

For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. KJV

Job 35:9

Bible Rank: 23,603

"People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful." NIV

Because of the multitudes of oppressions the people cry out; they cry for help because of the violence of the mighty. AMP

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. KJV

"This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign LORD." NIV

Thus says the Lord God: That is enough for you, O princes of Israel! Stop the violence and plundering and oppression [that you did when you were given no property], and do justice and righteousness, and take away your exactions and cease your evictions of My people, says the Lord God. AMP

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD. KJV

Jeremiah 22:17

Bible Rank: 24,582

"But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion." NIV

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness and dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression and doing violence. AMP

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. KJV

Ezekiel 22:7

Bible Rank: 24,622

In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow. NIV

In you have they treated father and mother lightly; in the midst of you they have dealt unjustly and by oppression in relation to the stranger; in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow. AMP

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. KJV

Isaiah 30:12

Bible Rank: 24,657

Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says: "Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit," NIV

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you despise and spurn this [My] word and trust in cunning and oppression, in crookedness and perverseness, and rely on them AMP

Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: KJV

Leviticus 25:43

Bible Rank: 24,768

Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God. NIV

You shall not rule over him with harshness (severity, oppression), but you shall [reverently] fear your God. [Eph. 6:9; Col. 4:1.] AMP

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God. KJV

Psalms 62:10

Bible Rank: 24,959

Do not trust in extortion or put vain hope in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them. NIV

Trust not in and rely confidently not on extortion and oppression, and do not vainly hope in robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them. AMP

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. KJV

Job 35:15

Bible Rank: 26,191

And further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness. NIV

But now because God has not [speedily] punished in His anger and seems to be unaware of the wrong and oppression [of which a person is guilty] AMP

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: KJV

Psalms 42:9

Bible Rank: 26,285

I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?" NIV

I will say to God my Rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? AMP

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? KJV