Lexicon :: Strong's G2559 - kakoō

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know this for certain: Your offspring will be resident aliens for four hundred years in a land that does not belong to them and will be enslaved and oppressed.[fn]

Abram replied to Sarai, “Here, your slave is in your power; do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai mistreated her so much that she ran away from her.

“Get out of the way! ” they said, adding, “This one came here as an alien, but he’s acting like a judge! Now we’ll do more harm to you than to them.” They put pressure on Lot and came up to break down the door.

So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities for Pharaoh.

So Moses went back to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? And why did you ever send me?

“You must not exploit a resident alien or oppress him, since you were resident aliens in the land of Egypt.

So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have you brought such trouble on your servant? Why are you angry with me,[fn] and why do you burden me with all these people?

Then Moses became angry and said to the LORD, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”

“Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt many years, but the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

Ships will come from the coast of Kittim;

they will carry out raids against Asshur and Eber,

but they too will come to destruction.

“You are to hold a sacred assembly on the tenth day of this seventh month and practice self-denial; do not do any work.

“Her husband may confirm or cancel any vow or any sworn obligation to deny herself.

“Remember that the LORD your God led you on the entire journey these forty years in the wilderness, so that he might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

“He fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your ancestors had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end he might cause you to prosper.

“But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, and forced us to do hard labor.

“I sent Moses and Aaron, and I defeated Egypt by what I did within it, and afterward I brought you out.

“If you abandon the LORD and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you, harm you, and completely destroy you, after he has been good to you.”

Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, the LORD was with him and saved the people from the power of their enemies while the judge was still alive. The LORD was moved to pity whenever they groaned because of those who were oppressing and afflicting them.

“I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has opposed[fn] me, and the Almighty has afflicted me? ”

The king said to the priest Abiathar, “Go to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death today, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD in the presence of my father David and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”

Then he cried out to the LORD and said, “LORD my God, have you also brought tragedy on the widow I am staying with by killing her son? ”

Total darkness is reserved for his treasures.

A fire unfanned by human hands will consume him;

it will feed on what is left in his tent.

You sent widows away empty-handed,

and the strength of the fatherless was[fn] crushed.

They are exalted for a moment, then gone;

they are brought low and shrivel up like everything else.[fn]

They wither like heads of grain.

Because God has loosened my[fn] bowstring and oppressed me,

they have cast off restraint in my presence.

I have not allowed my mouth to sin

by asking for his life with a curse.

When evildoers came against me to devour my flesh,

my foes and my enemies stumbled and fell.

I am faint and severely crushed;

I groan because of the anguish of my heart.

In order to plant them,

you displaced the nations by your hand;

in order to settle them,

you brought disaster on the peoples.

“The enemy will not oppress[fn] him;

the wicked will not afflict him.

LORD, they crush your people;

they oppress your heritage.

They angered the LORD at the Waters of Meribah,

and Moses suffered[fn] because of them,

When they are diminished and are humbled

by cruel oppression and sorrow,

for in your heart you know that many times you yourself have cursed others.

All this I have seen, applying my mind to all the work that is done under the sun, at a time when one person has authority over another to his harm.

“Tell us the coming events,

then we will know that you are gods.

Indeed, do something good or bad,

then we will be in awe[fn] when we see it.

In truth, the Lord GOD will help me;

who will condemn me?

Indeed, all of them will wear out like a garment;

a moth will devour them.

He was oppressed and afflicted,

yet he did not open his mouth.

Like a lamb led to the slaughter

and like a sheep silent before her shearers,

he did not open his mouth.

“Do not follow other gods to serve them and to bow in worship to them, and do not anger me by the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.

“For I am already bringing disaster on the city that bears my name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth. This is the declaration of the LORD of Armies.’

“Just as I watched over them to uproot and to tear them down, to demolish and to destroy, and to cause disaster, so will I watch over them to build and to plant them” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration.

I am watching over them for disaster and not for good, and everyone from Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine until they are finished off.

“Now, son of man, say to your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous person will not save him on the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked person cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. The righteous person won’t be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.

“Don’t be afraid, Daniel,” he said to me, “for from the first day that you purposed to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your prayers were heard. I have come because of your prayers.

The days of punishment have come;

the days of retribution have come.

Let Israel recognize it!

The prophet is a fool,

and the inspired man is insane,

because of the magnitude

of your iniquity and hostility.

And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps

and punish those who settle down comfortably,[fn]

who say to themselves:

The LORD will do nothing ​— ​good or bad.