Amos 8:4
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4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy,
and bring to ruin the poor of the land,(A)
Amos 5:11
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11 Therefore because you trample on the poor
and take from them levies of grain,
you have built houses of hewn stone,
but you shall not live in them;
you have planted pleasant vineyards,
but you shall not drink their wine.(A)
Proverbs 30:14
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14 there are those whose teeth are swords,
whose teeth are knives
to devour the poor from off the earth,
the needy from among mortals.(A)
Psalm 14:4
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4 Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers
who eat up my people as they eat bread
and do not call upon the Lord?(A)
Isaiah 32:6-7
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6 For fools speak folly,
and their minds plot iniquity:
to practice ungodliness,
to utter error concerning the Lord,
to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied,
and to deprive the thirsty of drink.(A)
7 The villainies of villains are evil;
they devise wicked devices
to ruin the poor with lying words,
even when the plea of the needy is right.(B)
Amos 2:6-7
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Judgment on Israel
6 Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they sell the righteous for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals—(A)
7 they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth
and push the afflicted out of the way;
father and son go in to the same young woman,
so that my holy name is profaned;(B)
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- 2.6 Heb cause it to return
Psalm 140:12
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12 I know that the Lord maintains the cause of the needy
and executes justice for the poor.(A)
Psalm 12:5
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5 “Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan,
I will now rise up,” says the Lord;
“I will place them in the safety for which they long.”(A)
James 5:6
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6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.
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Matthew 23:13
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13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.[a](A)
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Jeremiah 5:21
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21 Hear this, O foolish and senseless people,
who have eyes but do not see,
who have ears but do not hear.(A)
1 Kings 22:19
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19 Then Micaiah[a] said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, with all the host of heaven standing beside him to the right and to the left of him.(A)
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- 22.19 Heb he
Amos 7:16
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16 “Now therefore hear the word of the Lord.
You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’(A)
Jeremiah 28:15
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15 And the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, and you made this people trust in a lie.(A)
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Isaiah 28:14
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14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers
who rule this people in Jerusalem.(A)
Isaiah 1:10
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10 Hear the word of the Lord,
you rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the teaching of our God,
you people of Gomorrah!(A)
Psalm 56:1
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Psalm 56
Trust in God under Persecution
To the leader: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. Of David. A Miktam, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
1 Be gracious to me, O God, for people trample on me;
all day long foes oppress me;
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