Amos 5:11
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Zephaniah 1:13
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13 Their goods shall be (A)plundered,
and their houses laid waste.
(B)Though they build houses,
they shall not inhabit them;
(C)though they plant vineyards,
they shall not drink wine from them.”
Micah 6:15
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15 (A)You shall sow, but not reap;
you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;
you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
Deuteronomy 28:30
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30 (A)You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. (B)You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. (C)You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit.
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James 2:6
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6 But you (A)have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who (B)drag you (C)into court?
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Revelation 11:8-10
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8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically[a] is called (A)Sodom and (B)Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. 9 For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and (C)refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, 10 and (D)those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and (E)exchange presents, because these two prophets (F)had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth.
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- Revelation 11:8 Greek spiritually
Haggai 1:6
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6 (A)You have sown much, and harvested little. (B)You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who (C)earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
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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
Micah 2:2
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2 They covet fields and (A)seize them,
and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
a man and his inheritance.
Amos 3:15-4:1
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15 (A)I will strike (B)the winter house along with (C)the summer house,
and (D)the houses of ivory shall perish,
and the great houses[a] shall come to an end,”
declares the Lord.
4 “Hear this word, (E)you cows of Bashan,
who are (F)on the mountain of Samaria,
(G)who oppress the poor, (H)who crush the needy,
who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
Footnotes
- Amos 3:15 Or and many houses
Isaiah 65:21-22
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21 (A)They shall build houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 (B)They shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat;
(C)for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
and my chosen shall long enjoy[a] the work of their hands.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 65:22 Hebrew shall wear out
Isaiah 59:13-14
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13 transgressing, and denying the Lord,
and turning back from following our God,
(A)speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.
Judgment and Redemption
14 (B)Justice is turned back,
and righteousness stands far away;
for truth has stumbled in the public squares,
and uprightness cannot enter.
Isaiah 5:7-8
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7 (A)For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
but behold, bloodshed;[a]
for righteousness,
but behold, an outcry![b]
Woe to the Wicked
8 Woe to those who (B)join house to house,
who add field to field,
until there is no more room,
and you are made to dwell alone
in the midst of the land.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for justice and bloodshed sound alike
- Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for righteous and outcry sound alike
Deuteronomy 28:38-39
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38 (A)You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for (B)the locust shall consume it. 39 (C)You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.
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