Isaiah 3:15
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15 What do you mean by (A)crushing my people,
by grinding the face of the poor?”
declares the Lord God of hosts.
Micah 3:2-3
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2 you (A)who hate the good and love the evil,
(B)who tear the skin from off my people[a]
and their flesh from off their bones,
3 (C)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
Amos 8:4-6
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4 Hear this, (A)you who trample on the needy
and bring the poor of the land to an end,
5 saying, “When will (B)the new moon be over,
that we may sell grain?
And (C)the Sabbath,
that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make (D)the ephah small and the shekel[a] great
and deal deceitfully with false balances,
6 that we may buy the poor for (E)silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
Footnotes
- Amos 8:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
Psalm 94:5
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5 They (A)crush your people, O Lord,
and afflict your heritage.
Jonah 1:6
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6 So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, (A)call out to your god! (B)Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”
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Amos 2:6-7
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Judgment on Israel
6 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because (B)they sell the righteous for (C)silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals—
7 those who trample the head of the poor (D)into the dust of the earth
and (E)turn aside the way of the afflicted;
(F)a man and his father go in to the same girl,
so that my holy name is profaned;
Ezekiel 18:2
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2 “What do you[a] mean (A)by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, (B)‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge’?
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- Ezekiel 18:2 The Hebrew for you is plural
Isaiah 58:4
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4 Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight
and to hit with a wicked fist.
Fasting like yours this day
will not make your voice to be heard on high.
Exodus 5:14
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14 And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh's (A)taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?”
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