Caring for the Oppressed | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | August 8, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Rescue from the hand of the oppressor, the one who has been robbed. |
| 0:05.0 | Jeremiah 22, verse 3. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:12.0 | Caring for the oppressed was written and read by Amy Boucher Pie. |
| 0:21.8 | Jeremiah chapter 22 verses 1 through 5. |
| 0:26.1 | This is what the Lord says. |
| 0:28.9 | Go down to the palace of the King of Judah and proclaim this message there. |
| 0:34.6 | Hear the word of the Lord to you, King of Judah, you who sit on David's throne, you, your officials, and your people who come through these gates. |
| 0:45.3 | This is what the Lord says. Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. |
| 0:55.5 | Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow, and do not shed innocent |
| 1:02.5 | blood in this place. |
| 1:05.4 | For if you are careful to carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David's throne will come through the gates of this palace, |
| 1:13.9 | riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by their officials and their people. |
| 1:19.9 | But if you do not obey these commands, declares the Lord, I swear by myself that this palace will become a ruin. |
| 1:31.7 | Caring for the Oppressed |
| 1:33.3 | Josephine Butler, a prominent minister's wife, found herself campaigning for the rights |
| 1:40.9 | of women accused, often unjustly, of being ladies of the night, |
| 1:46.1 | though seen in society as the least desirables. |
| 1:50.7 | Spurred on by her deep faith in God, she fought for years against the British contagious diseases |
| 1:56.9 | acts of the 1860s, which subjected women to cruel and invasive, so-called medical exams. |
| 2:06.1 | In 1883, during the parliamentary debate over a bill to repeal the acts, she joined women in |
| 2:13.6 | Westminster to pray. As she later wrote, she was moved by the sight of the most |
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