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Nehemiah 5:1
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

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Nehemiah 5:2
For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

Nehemiah 5:3
There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

2 Kings 4:1
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

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Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

Exodus 3:7
Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Job 34:28
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

Luke 18:7
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

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Exodus 22:25
“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

Leviticus 25:35
“ ‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

Leviticus 25:36
Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

Leviticus 25:37
You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

Deuteronomy 23:19
You shall not lend on interest to your brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.

Psalms 15:5
he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

Ezekiel 18:8
he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

Ezekiel 18:13
has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor, shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.

Ezekiel 22:12
In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

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