10 Woe to those who (A)decree iniquitous decrees,
    and the writers who (B)keep writing oppression,

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10 Woe(A) to those who make unjust laws,
    to those who issue oppressive decrees,(B)

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52 Woe to you (A)lawyers! (B)For you have taken away the key of (C)knowledge. You (D)did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”

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52 “Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”(A)

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23 (A)“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For (B)you tithe mint and dill and (C)cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: (D)justice and mercy and faithfulness. (E)These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

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23 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth(A) of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness.(B) You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

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Rulers and Prophets Denounced

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?—
    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,
(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.

(F)Then they will cry to the Lord,
    but he will not answer them;
(G)he will hide his face from them at that time,
    because they have made their deeds evil.

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  1. Micah 3:2 Hebrew from off them

Leaders and Prophets Rebuked

Then I said,

“Listen, you leaders(A) of Jacob,
    you rulers of Israel.
Should you not embrace justice,
    you who hate good and love evil;
who tear the skin from my people
    and the flesh from their bones;(B)
who eat my people’s flesh,(C)
    strip off their skin
    and break their bones in pieces;(D)
who chop(E) them up like meat for the pan,
    like flesh for the pot?(F)

Then they will cry out to the Lord,
    but he will not answer them.(G)
At that time he will hide his face(H) from them
    because of the evil they have done.(I)

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Woe to the Chaldeans

Shall not all these (A)take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say,

(B)“Woe to him (C)who heaps up what is not his own—
    for (D)how long?—
    and (E)loads himself with pledges!”

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“Will not all of them taunt(A) him with ridicule and scorn, saying,

“‘Woe to him who piles up stolen goods
    and makes himself wealthy by extortion!(B)
    How long must this go on?’

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Woe to the Wicked

Woe to those who (A)join house to house,
    who add field to field,
until there is no more room,
    and you are made to dwell alone
    in the midst of the land.

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Woes and Judgments

Woe(A) to you who add house to house
    and join field to field(B)
till no space is left
    and you live alone in the land.

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20 Can (A)wicked rulers be allied with you,
    those who frame[a] injustice by (B)statute?
21 They (C)band together against the life of the righteous
    and condemn (D)the innocent to death.[b]

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  1. Psalm 94:20 Or fashion
  2. Psalm 94:21 Hebrew condemn innocent blood

20 Can a corrupt throne(A) be allied with you—
    a throne that brings on misery by its decrees?(B)
21 The wicked band together(C) against the righteous
    and condemn the innocent(D) to death.(E)

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11 Woe to them! For they walked in (A)the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain (B)to Balaam's error and (C)perished in Korah's rebellion.

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11 Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain;(A) they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error;(B) they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.(C)

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When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, (A)“Take him yourselves and crucify him, for (B)I find no guilt in him.”

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As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”

But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him.(A) As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.”(B)

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22 (His parents said these things (A)because they feared the Jews, for (B)the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should (C)confess Jesus[a] to be Christ, (D)he was to be put out of the synagogue.)

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  1. John 9:22 Greek him

22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders,(A) who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out(B) of the synagogue.(C)

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46 And he said, “Woe to you (A)lawyers also! For (B)you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. 47 (C)Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed.

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46 Jesus replied, “And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.(A)

47 “Woe to you, because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your ancestors who killed them.

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42 (A)“But woe to you Pharisees! For (B)you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect (C)justice and (D)the love of God. (E)These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 43 Woe to you Pharisees! For (F)you love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. 44 Woe to you! (G)For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.”

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42 “Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth(A) of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God.(B) You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone.(C)

43 “Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats in the synagogues and respectful greetings in the marketplaces.(D)

44 “Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves,(E) which people walk over without knowing it.”

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24 The Son of Man goes (A)as it is written of him, but (B)woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! (C)It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

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24 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him.(A) But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”

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