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And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
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if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found
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Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
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Further Disobedience and Oppression
The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the Lord and did not serve him.
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Then Jehoahaz sought the favor of the Lord, and the Lord listened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.
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Nehemiah Stops Oppression of the Poor
Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.
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“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
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His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
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I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
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For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?
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because of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they drop trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me.
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ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.
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From oppression and violence he redeems their life, and precious is their blood in his sight.
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They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.
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When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, evil, and sorrow,
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Redeem me from man's oppression, that I may keep your precepts.
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Evil Under the Sun
Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.
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The Vanity of Wealth and Honor
If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
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Surely oppression drives the wise into madness, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
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learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
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Judgment on Arrogance and Oppression
The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it will fall on Israel;
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Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression,
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Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and rely on them,
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He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,
