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“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor

…once he has sinned and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost property he found,

You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

…and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.

A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you.”

“You have not cheated us or oppressed us,” they replied, “nor have you taken anything from the hand of man.”

He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:

Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

Though the river rages, Behemoth is unafraid; he remains secure, though the Jordan surges to his mouth.

May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.

The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:

I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.

Ensure Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,

Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.

A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food.

A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.

Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.

He said, “You shall rejoice no more, O oppressed Virgin Daughter of Sidon. Get up and cross over to Cyprus—even there you will find no rest.”

For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.

…if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “The sons of Israel are oppressed, and the sons of Judah as well. All their captors hold them fast, refusing to release them.

As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what was wrong among his people.

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.

A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”

They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.