Isaiah 3:14
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14 The Lord enters into judgment
with the elders and princes of his people:
It is you who have devoured the vineyard;
the spoil of the poor is in your houses.(A)
Job 22:4
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4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you
and enters into judgment with you?(A)
James 2:6
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6 But you have dishonored the poor person. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into the courts?(A)
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Amos 4:1
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4 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan
who are on Mount Samaria,
who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,
who say to their husbands, “Bring something to drink!”(A)
Jeremiah 5:27
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27 Like a cage full of birds,
their houses are full of treachery;
therefore they have become great and rich;(A)
Isaiah 5:7
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7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the people of Judah
are his cherished garden;
he expected justice
but saw bloodshed;
righteousness
but heard a cry!(A)
Isaiah 3:2-3
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2 warrior and soldier,
judge and prophet,
diviner and elder,(A)
3 captain of fifty
and dignitary,
counselor and skillful magician
and expert enchanter.
Psalm 143:2
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2 Do not enter into judgment with your servant,
for no one living is righteous before you.(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)
Job 24:9
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9 “There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast
and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.(A)
Matthew 21:33
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The Parable of the Wicked Tenants
33 “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went away.(A)
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Micah 6:10
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10 Can I forget[a] the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked
and the despicable false measure?(A)
Footnotes
- 6.10 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Micah 2:2
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2 They covet fields and seize them,
houses and take them away;
they oppress householder and house,
people and their inheritance.(A)
Job 34:23
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23 For he has not appointed a time[a] for anyone
to go before God in judgment.
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- 34.23 Cn: Heb yet
Job 24:2-7
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2 The wicked[a] remove landmarks;
they seize flocks and pasture them.(A)
3 They drive away the donkey of the orphan;
they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.(B)
4 They thrust the needy off the road;
the poor of the earth all hide themselves.(C)
5 Like wild asses in the desert
they go out to their toil,
scavenging in the wasteland
food for their young.(D)
6 They reap in a field not their own,
and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
7 They lie all night naked, without clothing,
and have no covering in the cold.(E)
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- 24.2 Gk: Heb they
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