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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,

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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,

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Leviticus 19:35
Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

Proverbs 11:1
Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.

Proverbs 16:11
True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Proverbs 20:10
Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.

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Leviticus 25:40
But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;

Leviticus 25:41
Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

Leviticus 25:42
For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.

Job 7:2
As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:

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Deuteronomy 24:14
Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

Proverbs 11:26
He who keeps back grain will be cursed by the people; but a blessing will be on the head of him who lets them have it for a price.

James 5:2
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.

James 5:5
You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.

James 5:6
You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.

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Jeremiah 7:9
Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;

Jeremiah 7:10
And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?

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Jeremiah 51:34
Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.

Jeremiah 51:44
And I will send punishment on Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what went into it; no longer will the nations be flowing together to him: truly, the wall of Babylon will come down.

Lamentations 2:16
All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.

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Job 24:4
The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

Psalms 10:8
He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

Proverbs 22:23
For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.

Proverbs 28:3
A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.

Isaiah 3:14
The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.

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.

Jeremiah 5:26
For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

Jeremiah 5:28
They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

Ezekiel 18:12
Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need, and taken property by force, and has not given back to one in his debt what is his, and has given worship to images and has done disgusting things,

Ezekiel 22:7
In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

Ezekiel 22:13
See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.

Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

Micah 3:11
Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

Habakkuk 3:14
You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly.

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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Proverbs 6:11
Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them.

Micah 3:4
Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.

Micah 3:5
This is what the Lord has said about the prophets by whom my people have been turned from the right way; who, biting with their teeth, say, Peace; and if anyone puts nothing in their mouths they make ready for war against him.

Zephaniah 3:12
But I will still have among you a quiet and poor people, and they will put their faith in the name of the Lord.

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Joel 3:3
And they have put the fate of my people to the decision of chance: giving a boy for the price of a loose woman and a girl for a drink of wine.

Joel 3:6
And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have given for a price to the sons of the Greeks, to send them far away from their land:

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Amos 3:15
And I will send destruction on the winter house with the summer house; the ivory houses will be falling down and the great houses will come to an end, says the Lord.

Amos 6:4
Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house;

Amos 6:5
Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David;

Amos 6:6
Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.

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Amos 8:1
This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw a basket of summer fruit.

Amos 8:2
And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then the Lord said to me, The end has come to my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin.

Amos 8:3
And the songs of the king's house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a word.


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