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Bible Verses About Oppression
Find Bible verses about oppression — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about oppression?
The Bible addresses oppression with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Psalms 62:10
“Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.”
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Ezekiel 22:7
“In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.”
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Ezekiel 22:29
“The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.”
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Psalms 73:8
“They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.”
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Romans 8:35
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”
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Matthew 24:21
“for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.”
Matthew 13:21
“yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.”
Psalms 72:4
“He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.”
Proverbs 28:3
“A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.”
Proverbs 30:14
“There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.”
Job 34:28
“so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.”
Isaiah 5:7
“For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distr...”
Proverbs 28:15
“As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.”
1 Kings 12:14
“and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scor...”
Amos 2:7
“They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;”
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2 Chronicles 10:14 — “and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I...”
Isaiah 53:8 — “He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for his generation, who considered that he was ...”
Amos 8:4 — “Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,...”
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