You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether one of your brethren or one of the aliens who is in your land within your gates. Deuteronomy 24:14 Every nation has people who are foreigners and people who are poor living among them. It is something that cannot be escaped. Usually... Continue Reading →
Jeremiah 22:17 What Are Your Eyes And Heart After?
Yet your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, and practicing oppression and violence. Jeremiah 22:17 The eyes and hearts of people are always focused on what one desires and wants. Those things are what capture the heart and eyes over everything else. It will also override what... Continue Reading →
Ezekiel 45:9 Do What Is Just And Right
This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Stop disposing my people, declares the Sovereign Lord. Ezekiel 45:9 Every nation has some leaders who are oppressive of those under them. They use brute force or... Continue Reading →
Isaiah 53:7 Not Talking Back
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. Isaiah 53:7 Keeping quiet and not talking back is a difficult thing for many people to do. They... Continue Reading →