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Then we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our misery, toil and oppression.
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A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days.
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“People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
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Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression?
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He will rescue them from oppression and violence, for precious is their blood in his sight.
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They scoff, and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
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Then their numbers decreased, and they were humbled by oppression, calamity and sorrow;
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Redeem me from human oppression, that I may obey your precepts.
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Oppression, Toil, Friendlessness
Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed— and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors— and they have no comforter.
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Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit,
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By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.
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Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. “If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk,
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rebellion and treachery against the Lord, turning our backs on our God, inciting revolt and oppression, uttering lies our hearts have conceived.
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This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Cut down the trees and build siege ramps against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; it is filled with oppression.
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“But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion.”
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“‘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.
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Although they have sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them together. They will begin to waste away under the oppression of the mighty king.
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Proclaim to the fortresses of Ashdod and to the fortresses of Egypt: “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest within her and the oppression among her people.”
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I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’
