Ecclesiastes 4:1

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1. Ecclesiastes 3:16Rank 1 from verse 1

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   ¹⁶¶ And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

2. Ecclesiastes 5:8Rank 2 from verse 1

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   ⁸¶ If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

3. 2 Timothy 4:16–17Rank 3 from verse 1

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   ¹⁶At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

   ¹⁷Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

4. Isaiah 5:7Rank 4 from verse 1

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   ⁷For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

5. Isaiah 51:23Rank 5 from verse 1

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   ²³But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

6. Isaiah 59:13–15Rank 6 from verse 1

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   ¹³In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

   ¹⁴And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

   ¹⁵Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

7. James 5:4Rank 7 from verse 1

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   ⁴Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

8. Job 35:9Rank 8 from verse 1

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   ⁹By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

9. Lamentations 1:2Rank 9 from verse 1

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   ²She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

10. Lamentations 1:9Rank 10 from verse 1

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    ⁹Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O Lord, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.

11. Malachi 3:5Rank 11 from verse 1

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    ⁵And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

12. Matthew 26:56Rank 12 from verse 1

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    ⁵⁶But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

13. Psalms 12:5Rank 13 from verse 1

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    ⁵For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

14. Psalms 42:3Rank 14 from verse 1

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    ³My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

15. Psalms 42:9Rank 15 from verse 1

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    ⁹I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

16. Isaiah 59:7Rank 16 from verse 1

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    ⁷Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

17. Deuteronomy 28:33Rank 17 from verse 1

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    ³³The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:

18. Deuteronomy 28:48Rank 18 from verse 1

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    ⁴⁸Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

19. Ecclesiastes 7:7Rank 19 from verse 1

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    ⁷¶ Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

20. Exodus 1:13–14Rank 20 from verse 1

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    ¹³And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:

    ¹⁴And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

21. Exodus 1:16Rank 21 from verse 1

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    ¹⁶And 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.

22. Exodus 1:22Rank 22 from verse 1

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    ²²And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

23. Exodus 2:23–24Rank 23 from verse 1

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    ²³¶ And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

    ²⁴And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

24. Exodus 5:16–19Rank 24 from verse 1

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    ¹⁶There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.

    ¹⁷But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord.

    ¹⁸Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.

    ¹⁹And 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.

25. Job 16:4Rank 25 from verse 1

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    ⁴I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

26. Job 19:21–22Rank 26 from verse 1

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    ²¹Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

    ²²Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

27. Job 24:7–12Rank 27 from verse 1

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    ⁷They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

    ⁸They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

    ⁹They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

    ¹⁰They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

    ¹¹Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

    ¹²Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

28. Job 6:29Rank 28 from verse 1

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    ²⁹Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

29. Judges 10:7–8Rank 29 from verse 1

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    ⁷And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.

    ⁸And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

30. Judges 4:3Rank 30 from verse 1

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    ³And 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.

31. Malachi 2:13Rank 31 from verse 1

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    ¹³And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.

32. Malachi 3:18Rank 32 from verse 1

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    ¹⁸Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

33. Nehemiah 5:1–5Rank 33 from verse 1

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    ¹AND there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

    ²For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.

    ³Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.

    ⁴There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.

    ⁵Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

34. Proverbs 28:15–16Rank 34 from verse 1

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    ¹⁵As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

    ¹⁶The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

35. Proverbs 28:3Rank 35 from verse 1

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    ³A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

36. Psalms 10:9–10Rank 36 from verse 1

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    ⁹He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

    ¹⁰He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

37. Psalms 142:4Rank 37 from verse 1

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    ⁴I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

38. Psalms 69:20Rank 38 from verse 1

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    ²⁰Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

39. Psalms 80:5Rank 39 from verse 1

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    ⁵Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

40. Proverbs 19:7Rank 40 from verse 1

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    ⁷All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

41. Psalms 102:8–9Rank 41 from verse 1

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    ⁸Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.

    ⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,