Psalm 58:2
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2 No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;
your hands (A)deal out violence on earth.
Psalm 94:20
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Footnotes
- Psalm 94:20 Or fashion
Isaiah 10:1
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John 11:47-53
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47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees (A)gathered (B)the council and said, (C)“What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and (D)the Romans will come and take away both our (E)place and our nation.” 49 But one of them, (F)Caiaphas, (G)who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. 50 Nor do you understand that (H)it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.” 51 He did not say this of his own accord, but (I)being high priest that year (J)he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52 and (K)not for the nation only, but also (L)to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53 So from that day on they (M)made plans to put him to death.
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Malachi 3:15
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15 And now we call (A)the arrogant blessed. (B)Evildoers not only prosper but (C)they put God to the test and they escape.’”
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Micah 3:9-12
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9 (A)Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel,
(B)who detest justice
and make crooked all that is straight,
10 (C)who build Zion with blood
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 (D)Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
(E)its priests teach for a price;
(F)its prophets practice divination for money;
(G)yet they lean on the Lord and (H)say,
“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
(I)No disaster shall come upon us.”
12 Therefore because of you
(J)Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem (K)shall become a heap of ruins,
and (L)the mountain of the house (M)a wooded height.
Micah 3:1-3
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Rulers and Prophets Denounced
3 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?—
2 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,
3 (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.
Footnotes
- Micah 3:2 Hebrew from off them
Ezekiel 22:27
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27 (A)Her princes in her midst are like wolves (B)tearing the prey, (C)shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.
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Ezekiel 22:12
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12 In you (A)they take bribes to shed blood; (B)you take interest and profit[a] and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but (C)me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 22:12 That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor (compare Leviticus 25:36)
Jeremiah 22:16-17
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16 (A)He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
(B)then it was well.
Is not this (C)to know me?
declares the Lord.
17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
(D)for shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”
Isaiah 59:4-6
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4 (A)No one enters suit justly;
no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
(B)they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
5 They hatch adders' eggs;
they weave the spider's web;
he who eats their eggs dies,
and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.
6 (C)Their webs will not serve as clothing;
men will not cover themselves with what they make.
Their works are works of iniquity,
and deeds of violence are in their hands.
Isaiah 26:7
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7 The path of the righteous is level;
(A)you make level the way of the righteous.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
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From Dust to Dust
16 Moreover, (A)I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even (B)there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.
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Psalm 21:11
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11 Though they plan evil against you,
though they (A)devise mischief, they will not succeed.
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