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Job 6.23:

Or, “Save me from an opponent’s hand”?
Or, “Ransom me from the hand of oppressors”?

Job 27.13:

‘This is the portion of the wicked with God,
and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:^*

Psalm 72.4:

May he defend the cause of the poor of the people,
give deliverance to the needy,
and crush the oppressor.

Psalm 73.1:

Psalm 73

A Psalm of Asaph.
Truly God is good to the upright,^*
to those who are pure in heart.

Psalm 119.121:

I have done what is just and right;
do not leave me to my oppressors.

Proverbs 28.16:

A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor;
but one who hates unjust gain will enjoy a long life.

Proverbs 29.13:

The poor and the oppressor have this in common:
the Lord gives light to the eyes of both.

Ecclesiastes 4.1:

Again I saw all the oppressions that are practised under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them.

Isaiah 3.12:

My people—children are their oppressors,
and women rule over them.
O my people, your leaders mislead you,
and confuse the course of your paths.

Isaiah 9.4:

For the yoke of their burden,
   and the bar across their shoulders,
   the rod of their oppressor,
   you have broken as on the day of Midian.

Isaiah 14.4:

you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:
How the oppressor has ceased!
How his insolence^* has ceased!

Isaiah 16.4:

let the outcasts of Moab
settle among you;
be a refuge to them
from the destroyer.’

When the oppressor is no more,
and destruction has ceased,
and marauders have vanished from the land,

Isaiah 19.20:

It will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; when they cry to the Lord because of oppressors, he will send them a saviour, and will defend and deliver them.

Isaiah 49.26:

I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh,
   and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine.
Then all flesh shall know
   that I am the Lord your Saviour,
   and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

Isaiah 51.13:

You have forgotten the Lord, your Maker,
   who stretched out the heavens
   and laid the foundations of the earth.
You fear continually all day long
   because of the fury of the oppressor,
who is bent on destruction.
   But where is the fury of the oppressor?

Jeremiah 21.12:

O house of David! Thus says the Lord:
Execute justice in the morning,
   and deliver from the hand of the oppressor
   anyone who has been robbed,
or else my wrath will go forth like fire,
   and burn, with no one to quench it,
   because of your evil doings.

Jeremiah 22.3:

Thus says the Lord: Act with justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the orphan, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Zephaniah 3.19:

I will deal with all your oppressors
   at that time.
And I will save the lame
   and gather the outcast,
and I will change their shame into praise
   and renown in all the earth.

Zechariah 9.8:

Then I will encamp at my house as a guard,
so that no one shall march to and fro;
no oppressor shall again overrun them,
for now I have seen with my own eyes.