Jeremiah 5:27
English Standard Version
27 Like a cage full of birds,
their houses are full of deceit;
therefore they have become great and rich;
Revelation 18:2
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2 And he called out with a mighty voice,
(A)“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
She has become (B)a dwelling place for demons,
a haunt (C)for every unclean spirit,
a haunt (D)for every unclean bird,
a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.
Habakkuk 2:9-11
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9 (A)“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,
(B)to (C)set his nest on high,
to be safe from the reach of harm!
10 You have devised shame for your house
(D)by cutting off many peoples;
you have forfeited your life.
11 For (E)the stone will cry out from the wall,
and the beam from the woodwork respond.
Micah 1:12
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12 For the inhabitants of Maroth
wait anxiously for good,
because disaster has come down (A)from the Lord
to the gate of Jerusalem.
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
Hosea 12:7-8
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7 A merchant, in whose hands are (A)false balances,
he loves (B)to oppress.
8 Ephraim has said, “Ah, but (C)I am rich;
I have found wealth for myself;
in all my labors (D)they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”
Jeremiah 9:6
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6 Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
(A)they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.
Proverbs 1:11-13
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11 If they say, “Come with us, (A)let us lie in wait for blood;
(B)let us ambush the innocent without reason;
12 like Sheol let us (C)swallow them alive,
and whole, like (D)those who go down to the pit;
13 we shall find all precious goods,
we shall fill our houses with plunder;
Micah 6:10-11
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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?
11 Shall I acquit the man (A)with wicked scales
and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Footnotes
- Micah 6:10 Or Are there still treasures
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
