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Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call on the Lord?
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Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, And whose fangs are like knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, And the needy from among men.
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Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you tread down the poor And take grain taxes from him, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, Yet you shall not dwell in them; You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink wine from them.
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Isaiah 32:6-7
For the foolish person will speak foolishness, And his heart will work iniquity: To practice ungodliness, To utter error against the Lord, To keep the hungry unsatisfied, And he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.Also the schemes of the schemer are evil; He devises wicked plans To destroy the poor with lying words, Even when the needy speaks justice.
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Amos 2:6-7
Thus says the Lord:“ For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they sell the righteous for silver, And the poor for a pair of sandals.They pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor, And pervert the way of the humble. A man and his father go in to the same girl, To defile My holy name.
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Isaiah 28:14
Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scornful men, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
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Psalms 12:5
“ For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, Now I will arise,” says the Lord;“ I will set him in the safety for which he yearns.”
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Isaiah 1:10
Hear the word of the Lord, You rulers of Sodom; Give ear to the law of our God, You people of Gomorrah:
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Jeremiah 28:15
Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet,“ Hear now, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie.
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Amos 7:16
Now therefore, hear the word of the Lord: You say,‘ Do not prophesy against Israel, And do not spout against the house of Isaac.’
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James 5:6
You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.
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Matthew 23:13
“ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
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Jeremiah 5:21
‘ Hear this now, O foolish people, Without understanding, Who have eyes and see not, And who have ears and hear not:
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1 Kings 22 19
Then Micaiah said,“ Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by, on His right hand and on His left.
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Psalms 56:1
Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up; Fighting all day he oppresses me.
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Psalms 140:12
I know that the Lord will maintain The cause of the afflicted, And justice for the poor.