Isaiah 3:15
By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.
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Isaiah 3:15
By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.
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Isaiah 3:1
For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;
Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.
Isaiah 3:13
The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.
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Psalms 10:2
The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.
Proverbs 17:5
Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.
Isaiah 1:23
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.
Isaiah 32:7
The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.
James 2:6
But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?
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Ezekiel 18:2
Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?
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Amos 8:4
Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,
Amos 8:5
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;
Amos 8:6
Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.
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