Gen 25:22 The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.
Deu 28:33 A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually,
Judg 9:53 And a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head and crushed his skull.
Judg 10:8 and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
1Sa 12:3 Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you.”
1Sa 12:4 They said, “You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man’s hand.”
2Ki 18:21 Behold, you are trusting now in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
2Ch 16:10 Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the stocks in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.
Job 20:19 For he has crushed and abandoned the poor;
he has seized a house that he did not build.
he has seized a house that he did not build.
Psa 74:14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
Ecc 12:6 before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,
Isa 36:6 Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
Isa 42:3 a bruised reed he will not break,
and a faintly burning wick he will not quench;
he will faithfully bring forth justice.
and a faintly burning wick he will not quench;
he will faithfully bring forth justice.
Isa 42:4 He will not grow faint or be discouraged
till he has established justice in the earth;
and the coastlands wait for his law.
till he has established justice in the earth;
and the coastlands wait for his law.
Isa 58:6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:
to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?
to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?
Eze 29:7 when they grasped you with the hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke and made all their loins to shake.
Hos 5:11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,
because he was determined to go after filth.
because he was determined to go after filth.
Amo 4:1 “Hear this word, you cows of Bashan,
who are on the mountain of Samaria,
who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,
who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
who are on the mountain of Samaria,
who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,
who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
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