Isaiah 3:5
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5 (A)And the people will oppress one another,
every one his fellow
and every one his neighbor;
the youth will be insolent to the elder,
and the despised to the honorable.
Malachi 3:5
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5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be (A)a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those (B)who oppress the hired worker in his wages, (C)the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
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Jeremiah 9:3-8
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3 (A)They bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong[a] in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
(B)and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 (C)Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every (D)brother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor (E)goes about as a slanderer.
5 Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.
6 Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
(F)they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.
7 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts:
“Behold, (G)I will refine them and (H)test them,
for what else can I do, (I)because of my people?
8 (J)Their tongue is a deadly arrow;
(K)it speaks deceitfully;
with his mouth (L)each speaks peace to his neighbor,
but in his heart (M)he plans an ambush for him.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:3 Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong
James 5:4
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4 Behold, (A)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and (B)the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of (C)the Lord of hosts.
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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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Luke 22:64
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64 (A)They also blindfolded him and kept asking him, (B)“Prophesy! (C)Who is it that struck you?”
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Mark 14:65
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65 (A)And some began (B)to spit on him and (C)to cover his face and to strike him, saying to him, “Prophesy!” And the guards received him (D)with blows.
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Matthew 27:28-30
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28 And they stripped him and put (A)a scarlet robe on him, 29 and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they (B)mocked him, saying, “Hail, (C)King of the Jews!” 30 And (D)they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head.
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Matthew 26:67
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67 Then (A)they spit in his face (B)and (C)struck him. And some slapped him,
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Zechariah 7:9-11
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9 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, (A)Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, 10 (B)do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, (C)or the poor, and (D)let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.” 11 But (E)they refused to pay attention (F)and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.[a]
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- Zechariah 7:11 Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear
Micah 7:3-6
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3 (A)Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well;
(B)the prince and (C)the judge ask for a bribe,
and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul;
thus they weave it together.
4 The best of them is (D)like a brier,
the most upright of them a thorn hedge.
The day of (E)your watchmen, of your punishment, has come;
(F)now their confusion is at hand.
5 (G)Put no trust in a neighbor;
have no confidence in a friend;
guard (H)the doors of your mouth
from her who lies in your arms;[a]
6 for (I)the son treats the father with contempt,
the daughter rises up against her mother,
the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
(J)a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
Footnotes
- Micah 7:5 Hebrew bosom
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.
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- Micah 3:2 Hebrew from off them
Amos 4:1
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4 “Hear this word, (A)you cows of Bashan,
who are (B)on the mountain of Samaria,
(C)who oppress the poor, (D)who crush the needy,
who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
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)
Ezekiel 22:6-7
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6 “Behold, (A)the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. 7 Father and mother (B)are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner (C)suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow (D)are wronged in you.
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Jeremiah 22:17
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17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
(A)for shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”
Isaiah 11:13
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13 (A)The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart,
and those who harass Judah shall be cut off;
Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah,
and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
Isaiah 9:19-21
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19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts
the land is scorched,
and (A)the people are like fuel for the fire;
(B)no one spares another.
20 (C)They slice meat on the right, but are still hungry,
and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied;
(D)each devours the flesh of his own arm,
21 Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh;
together they are (E)against Judah.
(F)For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 1:4
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4 Ah, sinful nation,
a people laden with iniquity,
(A)offspring of evildoers,
children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the Lord,
they have (B)despised (C)the Holy One of Israel,
they are utterly (D)estranged.
Ecclesiastes 10:5-7
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5 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were (A)an error proceeding from the ruler: 6 (B)folly is set in many high places, and the rich sit in a low place. 7 (C)I have seen slaves (D)on horses, and princes walking on the ground like slaves.
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Job 30:1-12
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30 “But now they (A)laugh at me,
men who are (B)younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
to set with the dogs of my flock.
2 What could I gain from the strength of their hands,
(C)men whose (D)vigor is gone?
3 Through want and hard hunger
they (E)gnaw (F)the dry ground by night in (G)waste and desolation;
4 they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes,
and the roots of the broom tree for their food.[a]
5 (H)They are driven out from human company;
they shout after them as after a thief.
6 In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell,
in holes of the earth and of (I)the rocks.
7 Among the bushes they (J)bray;
under (K)the nettles they huddle together.
8 A senseless, a nameless brood,
they have been whipped out of the land.
9 “And now I have become their (L)song;
I am (M)a byword to them.
10 They (N)abhor me; they keep aloof from me;
they do not hesitate to (O)spit at the sight of me.
11 Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me,
they have cast off restraint[b] in my presence.
12 On my (P)right hand the rabble rise;
they push away my feet;
they (Q)cast up against me their ways of destruction.
2 Kings 2:23
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23 He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
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2 Samuel 16:5-9
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Shimei Curses David
5 When King David came to (A)Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was (B)Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came (C)he cursed continually. 6 And he threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. 7 And Shimei said as he (D)cursed, “Get out, get out, you man of blood, you worthless man! 8 The Lord (E)has avenged on you all (F)the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, your evil is on you, for you are a man of blood.”
9 Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this (G)dead dog (H)curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head.”
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Leviticus 19:32
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32 (A)“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall (B)fear your God: I am the Lord.
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