Poor: Oppressions of

About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. …

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build. …

For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed. …

They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, but many are those who love the rich.

He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.

All the brothers of a poor man hate him—how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

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.

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.

…there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.

If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.

The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,

…to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.

The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.

He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.

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.

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals. …

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.”

The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak.

But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?