Isaiah 3:14
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14 The Lord will enter into judgment
with the (A)elders and princes of his people:
“It is you who (B)have devoured[a] the vineyard,
(C)the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 3:14 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5
Job 22:4
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4 Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you
and (A)enters into judgment with you?
James 2:6
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6 But you (A)have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who (B)drag you (C)into court?
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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!’
Jeremiah 5:27
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27 Like a cage full of birds,
their houses are full of deceit;
therefore they have become great and rich;
Isaiah 5:7
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7 (A)For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
but behold, bloodshed;[a]
for righteousness,
but behold, an outcry![b]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for justice and bloodshed sound alike
- Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for righteous and outcry sound alike
Isaiah 3:2-3
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2 (A)the mighty man and the soldier,
the judge and the prophet,
the diviner and the elder,
3 the captain of fifty
and the man of rank,
the counselor and the skillful magician
and the expert in charms.
Psalm 143:2
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Psalm 14:4
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4 Have they no (A)knowledge, all the evildoers
who (B)eat up my people as they eat bread
and (C)do not call upon the Lord?
Job 24:9
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9 (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,
and they take a pledge against the poor.)
Matthew 21:33
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Micah 6:10
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10 Can I forget any longer the treasures[a] of wickedness in the house of the wicked,
and the scant measure that is accursed?
Footnotes
- Micah 6:10 Or Are there still treasures
Micah 2:2
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2 They covet fields and (A)seize them,
and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
a man and his inheritance.
Job 34:23
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Footnotes
- Job 34:23 Hebrew he
Job 24:2-7
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2 Some move (A)landmarks;
they seize flocks and pasture them.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
they (B)take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4 They (C)thrust the poor off the road;
the poor of the earth (D)all hide themselves.
5 Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert
the poor[a] (E)go out to their toil, (F)seeking game;
the wasteland yields food for their children.
6 They gather their[b] fodder in the field,
and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
7 They (G)lie all night naked, without clothing,
and have no covering in the cold.
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