Genesis 15:13 (KJV) »
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
Proverbs 30:14 (KJV) »
There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Psalms 10:2 (KJV) »
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Exodus 1:11 (KJV) »
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Psalms 10:15 (KJV) »
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
Jeremiah 22:13 (KJV) »
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
Proverbs 28:4 (KJV) »
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
Nehemiah 5:7 (KJV) »
Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
Amos 6:12 (KJV) »
Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
Exodus 8:28 (KJV) »
And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: entreat for me.
Esther 3:10 (KJV) »
And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
Isaiah 29:21 (KJV) »
That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Habakkuk 2:17 (KJV) »
For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
Psalms 10:3 (KJV) »
For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
Psalms 69:26 (KJV) »
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Exodus 1:10 (KJV) »
Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Exodus 12:33 (KJV) »
And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
Nehemiah 9:37 (KJV) »
And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Psalms 109:2 (KJV) »
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Deuteronomy 28:50 (KJV) »
A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young:
Job 30:12 (KJV) »
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Isaiah 29:20 (KJV) »
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
Psalms 10:7 (KJV) »
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Isaiah 10:2 (KJV) »
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Judges 6:4 (KJV) »
And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
Psalms 109:29 (KJV) »
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
Exodus 10:23 (KJV) »
They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
Judges 6:2 (KJV) »
And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.
Exodus 1:14 (KJV) »
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor.
Judges 6:6 (KJV) »
And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.
Psalms 35:7 (KJV) »
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Isaiah 19:4 (KJV) »
And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
Judges 4:3 (KJV) »
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
Nehemiah 5:4 (KJV) »
There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
Psalms 109:23 (KJV) »
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Habakkuk 1:10 (KJV) »
And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
Jeremiah 37:15 (KJV) »
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
Deuteronomy 25:18 (KJV) »
How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
Psalms 109:11 (KJV) »
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Exodus 1:16 (KJV) »
And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
Exodus 5:21 (KJV) »
And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
Ezekiel 25:15 (KJV) »
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
Psalms 10:8 (KJV) »
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
Psalms 94:21 (KJV) »
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Isaiah 10:13 (KJV) »
For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
Job 24:3 (KJV) »
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Judges 15:9 (KJV) »
Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
Judges 6:3 (KJV) »
And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
Isaiah 10:24 (KJV) »
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
Isaiah 14:6 (KJV) »
He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
Nehemiah 5:1 (KJV) »
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Exodus 5:10 (KJV) »
And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
Jeremiah 38:9 (KJV) »
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
Psalms 109:19 (KJV) »
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Exodus 1:18 (KJV) »
And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
Exodus 5:11 (KJV) »
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
Exodus 5:19 (KJV) »
And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
