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Forbidden and will be punished by God
Exodus 22:21-24. Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for
yourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not
hurt a widow or an orphan. If you hurt them, they will cry out to me,
and I will hear their cry: And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will
strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your
children fatherless.
Asylum from oppression
Deuteronomy 23:15-16. Thou shalt not deliver to his master the
servant that is fled to thee. He shall dwell with thee in the place that
shall please him, and shall rest in one of thy cities: give him no
trouble.
God is a refuge from
Psalms 9:10. And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper
in due time in tribulation.
Psalms 11:6. By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of
the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord. I will set him in safety: I
will deal confidently in his regard.
God will judge oppression
Job 27:13-17. This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the
inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his
grandsons shall not be filled with bread. They that shall remain of
him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep. If he
shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay, he
shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and
the innocent shall divide the silver.
Psalms 102:6. The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that
suffer wrong.
Acts 7:7. And the nation which they shall serve will I judge (said the
Lord): and after these things they shall go out and shall serve me in
this place.
God will relieve the oppressed
Exodus 3:9-10. For the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me:
and I have seen their affliction, wherewith they are oppressed by the
Egyptians. But come, and I will send thee to Pharao, that thou mayst
bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.