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  • You on the other hand have eyes and heart for nothing but your own interests, for shedding innocent blood and perpetrating violence and oppression.' (Jeremiah 22, 17)

  • From the palace roofs of Assyria and from the palace roofs of Egypt, proclaim aloud, 'Assemble on the hills of Samaria and observe the grave disorders inside her and the acts of oppression there!' (Amos 3, 9)

  • Why do you make me see wrong-doing, why do you countenance oppression? Plundering and violence confront me, contention and discord flourish. (Habakkuk 1, 3)

  • Your eyes are too pure to rest on evil, you cannot look on at oppression. Why do you look on at those who play the traitor, why say nothing while the wicked swallows someone more upright than himself? (Habakkuk 1, 13)


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