Amos 4:1
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4 “Hear this word, (A)you cows of Bashan,
who are (B)on the mountain of Samaria,
(C)who oppress the poor, (D)who crush the needy,
who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
Psalm 22:12
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Amos 6:1
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Woe to Those at Ease in Zion
6 (A)“Woe to those who are at ease in Zion,
and to those who feel secure on (B)the mountain of Samaria,
(C)the notable men of (D)the first of the nations,
to whom the house of Israel comes!
Amos 5:11
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Ezekiel 39:18
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18 (A)You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, of bulls, all of them (B)fat beasts of Bashan.
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Ecclesiastes 4:1
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Evil Under the Sun
4 (A)Again I (B)saw all (C)the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had (D)no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.
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James 5:1-6
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Warning to the Rich
5 Come now, (A)you rich, weep and howl for the (B)miseries that are coming upon you. 2 (C)Your riches have rotted and (D)your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. (E)You have laid up treasure (F)in the last days. 4 Behold, (G)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and (H)the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of (I)the Lord of hosts. 5 (J)You have lived on the earth in luxury and (K)in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in (L)a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and (M)murdered (N)the righteous person. He does not resist you.
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Malachi 3:5
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5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be (A)a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those (B)who oppress the hired worker in his wages, (C)the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
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Zechariah 7:10-11
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10 (A)do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, (B)or the poor, and (C)let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.” 11 But (D)they refused to pay attention (E)and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.[a]
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- Zechariah 7:11 Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear
Micah 3:1-3
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Rulers and Prophets Denounced
3 And I said:
(A)Hear, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
(B)Is it not for you to know justice?—
2 you (C)who hate the good and love the evil,
(D)who tear the skin from off my people[a]
and their flesh from off their bones,
3 (E)who eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.
Footnotes
- Micah 3:2 Hebrew from off them
Micah 2:1-3
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Woe to the Oppressors
2 (A)Woe to those who devise wickedness
and work evil (B)on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
because it is in the power of their hand.
2 They covet fields and (C)seize them,
and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
a man and his inheritance.
3 Therefore thus says the Lord:
behold, against (D)this family I am devising disaster,[a]
from which you cannot remove your necks,
and you (E)shall not walk haughtily,
(F)for it will be a time of disaster.
Footnotes
- Micah 2:3 The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context
Amos 8:4-6
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4 Hear this, (A)you who trample on the needy
and bring the poor of the land to an end,
5 saying, “When will (B)the new moon be over,
that we may sell grain?
And (C)the Sabbath,
that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make (D)the ephah small and the shekel[a] great
and deal deceitfully with false balances,
6 that we may buy the poor for (E)silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
Footnotes
- Amos 8:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
Amos 3:9-10
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9 Proclaim to the strongholds in (A)Ashdod
and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt,
and say, “Assemble yourselves on (B)the mountains of Samaria,
and see the great tumults within her,
and (C)the oppressed in her midst.”
10 “They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord,
(D)“those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”
Amos 2:6-8
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Judgment on Israel
6 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because (B)they sell the righteous for (C)silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals—
7 those who trample the head of the poor (D)into the dust of the earth
and (E)turn aside the way of the afflicted;
(F)a man and his father go in to the same girl,
so that my holy name is profaned;
8 they lay themselves down beside every altar
on garments (G)taken in pledge,
and in the house of their God they drink
the wine of those who have been fined.
Joel 3:3
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3 and (A)have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.
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Ezekiel 22:29
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29 The people of the land (A)have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and (B)have extorted from the sojourner without justice.
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Ezekiel 22:27
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27 (A)Her princes in her midst are like wolves (B)tearing the prey, (C)shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.
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Ezekiel 22:12
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12 In you (A)they take bribes to shed blood; (B)you take interest and profit[a] and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but (C)me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 22:12 That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor (compare Leviticus 25:36)
Ezekiel 22:7
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7 Father and mother (A)are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner (B)suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow (C)are wronged in you.
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Jeremiah 51:34
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34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon (A)has devoured me;
he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
(B)he has swallowed me like (C)a monster;
he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
he has rinsed me out.[a]
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:34 Or he has expelled me
Jeremiah 50:27
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27 Kill all (A)her bulls;
let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them, for their day has come,
(B)the time of their punishment.
Jeremiah 50:11
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11 (A)“Though you rejoice, though you exult,
O plunderers of my heritage,
though you frolic like a heifer in the pasture,
and neigh like stallions,
Jeremiah 7:6
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6 if you (A)do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, (B)or shed innocent blood in this place, (C)and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm,
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Jeremiah 6:6
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6 For thus says the Lord of hosts:
(A)“Cut down her trees;
(B)cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem.
This is the city that must be (C)punished;
there is nothing but oppression within her.
Jeremiah 5:26-29
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26 For wicked men are found among my people;
(A)they lurk like fowlers lying in wait.[a]
(B)They set a trap;
they catch men.
27 Like a cage full of birds,
their houses are full of deceit;
therefore they have become great and rich;
28 (C)they have grown fat and sleek.
They know no bounds in deeds of evil;
(D)they judge not with justice
the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper,
and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
29 (E)Shall I not punish them for these things?
declares the Lord,
and shall I not avenge myself
on a nation such as this?”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 5:26 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
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