Exo 22:21-24, 2Ki 9:26, Neh 5:1-5, Job 24:2-12, Eze 18:12, 22:12, Mic 3:9 | ESV | STEP | You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt .

Exodus 22:21-24

21 ^a“You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 22 ^bYou shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. 23 If you do mistreat them, and they ^ccry out to me, I will surely ^dhear their cry, 24 and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and ^eyour wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

2 Kings 9:26

26 ‘As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—declares the Lord—I will repay you on this plot of ground.’ Now therefore take him up and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the Lord.”

Nehemiah 5:1-5

Nehemiah Stops Oppression of the Poor

1 Now there arose ^fa great outcry of the people and of their wives ^gagainst their Jewish brothers. 2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” 3 There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” 4 And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for ^hthe king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards. 5 Now ⁱour flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet ^jwe are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Job 24:2-12

2 Some move ^klandmarks;
they seize flocks and pasture them.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
they ^ltake the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4 They ^mthrust the poor off the road;
the poor of the earth ⁿall hide themselves.
5 Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert
the poor ^{▼▼Hebrew they} ^pgo out to their toil, ^qseeking game;
the wasteland yields food for their children.
6 They gather their ^{▼▼Hebrew his} fodder in the field,
and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
7 They ^slie all night naked, without clothing,
and have no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the rain of the mountains
and ^tcling to the rock for lack of shelter.
9 (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,
and they take a pledge against the poor.)
10 They go about naked, without clothing;
hungry, they ^ucarry the sheaves;
11 among the olive rows of the wicked ^{▼▼Hebrew their olive rows} they make oil;
they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.
12 From out of the city the dying groan,
and the soul of ^wthe wounded cries for help;
yet God charges no one with ^xwrong.

Ezekiel 18:12

12 oppresses the poor and needy, ^ycommits robbery, ^zdoes not restore the pledge, ^aalifts up his eyes to the idols, ^abcommits abomination,

Ezekiel 22:12

12 In you ^acthey take bribes to shed blood; ^adyou take interest and profit ^{▼▼That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor (compare Leviticus 25:36)} and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but ^afme you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

Micah 3:9

9 ^agHear this, you heads of the house of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel,
^ahwho detest justice
and make crooked all that is straight,