Ezekiel 46:18
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18 (A)The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, (B)thrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be (C)scattered from his property.”
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Ezekiel 45:8
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8 of the land. It is to be his property in Israel. And (A)my princes shall no more oppress my people, but (B)they shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes.
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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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1 Kings 21:19
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19 And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: (A)“In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood.”’”
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Ephesians 4:8
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8 Therefore it says,
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- Ephesians 4:8 The Greek word anthropoi can refer to both men and women
John 10:28
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28 (A)I give them eternal life, and (B)they will never perish, and (C)no one will snatch them out of my hand.
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Micah 2:1-2
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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.
Micah 1:1-2
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1 The word of the Lord that came to Micah (A)of Moresheth (B)in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw (C)concerning (D)Samaria and Jerusalem.
The Coming Destruction
2 (E)Hear, you peoples, all of you;[a]
(F)pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it,
and (G)let the Lord God be a witness against you,
(H)the Lord from his holy temple.
Footnotes
- Micah 1:2 Hebrew all of them
Ezekiel 34:21
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21 Because you push with side and shoulder, and (A)thrust at all the (B)weak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad,
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Ezekiel 34:3-6
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3 (A)You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, (B)you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep. 4 (C)The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, (D)the injured you have not bound up, (E)the strayed you have not brought back, (F)the lost you have not sought, and with force and (G)harshness you have ruled them. 5 (H)So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and (I)they became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered; 6 they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, (J)with none to search or seek for them.
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Jeremiah 23:5-6
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5 (A)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous (B)Branch, and (C)he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 6 In his days Judah will be saved, and (D)Israel will (E)dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: (F)‘The Lord is our righteousness.’
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Isaiah 32:1-2
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A King Will Reign in Righteousness
32 Behold, (A)a king will reign in righteousness,
and princes will rule in justice.
2 (B)Each will be like a hiding place from the wind,
a shelter from the storm,
(C)like streams of water in a dry place,
like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
Isaiah 11:3-4
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3 And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
(A)He shall not judge by (B)what his eyes see,
or decide disputes by (C)what his ears hear,
4 but (D)with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
and he shall (E)strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and (F)with the breath of his lips (G)he shall kill the wicked.
Psalm 78:72
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Psalm 72:2-4
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2 May he (A)judge your people with righteousness,
and your poor with justice!
3 Let the mountains bear (B)prosperity for the people,
and the hills, in righteousness!
4 May he defend the cause of the poor of the people,
give deliverance to the children of the needy,
and crush the oppressor!
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
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