Verses for the oppressed

Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

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

The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners: