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Ezekiel 22:13
“ Behold, then, I strike with My hand your profit which you have made and the bloodshed which is among you.
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Isaiah 1:23
Your rulers are rebels And companions of thieves; Everyone loves a bribe And chases after gifts. They do not obtain justice for the orphan, Nor does the widow’s case come before them.
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Zephaniah 3:3
Her leaders within her are roaring lions, Her judges are wolves at evening; They have no bones to gnaw in the morning.
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Ezekiel 22:6
“ Behold, the rulers of Israel, each according to his power, have been among you for the purpose of shedding blood.
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Ezekiel 22:25
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in the midst of her.
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Ezekiel 45:9
‘ This is what the Lord God says:“ Enough, you princes of Israel; get rid of violence and destruction, and practice justice and righteousness. Revoke your evictions of My people,” declares the Lord God.
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Micah 7:8
Do not rejoice over me, enemy of mine. Though I fall I will rise; Though I live in darkness, the Lord is a light for me.
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Micah 3:2-3
You who hate good and love evil, Who tear off their skin from them And their flesh from their bones,Who eat the flesh of my people, Strip off their skin from them, Smash their bones, And chop them up as for the pot, And as meat in a cauldron!”
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Hosea 7:1-7
When I would heal Israel, The wrongdoing of Ephraim is uncovered, And the evil deeds of Samaria, For they practice deception; The thief enters, A band of robbers attack outside,And they do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround them; They are before My face.With their wickedness they make the king happy, And the officials with their lies.They are all adulterers, Like an oven heated by the baker, Who stops stoking the fire From the time the dough is kneaded until it is leavened.On the day of our king, the officials became sick with the heat of wine; He stretched out his hand with scoffers,For their hearts are like an oven As they approach their plotting; Their anger smolders all night, In the morning it burns like flaming fire.All of them are hot like an oven, And they consume their rulers; All their kings have fallen. None of them calls on Me.
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James 5:1-4
Come now, you rich people, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth eaten.Your gold and your silver have corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of armies.
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Ezekiel 19:3-6
When she brought up one of her cubs, He became a young lion, And he learned to tear his prey; He devoured people.Then nations heard about him; He was caught in their trap, And they brought him with hooks To the land of Egypt.When she saw, as she waited, That her hope was lost, She took another of her cubs And made him a young lion.And he walked about among the lions, He became a young lion; He learned to tear his prey; He devoured people.
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Matthew 21:13
And He* said to them,“ It is written:‘ My house will be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a den of robbers.”
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Micah 3:9-11
Now hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel, Who despise justice And twist everything that is straight,Who build Zion with bloodshed, And Jerusalem with malice.Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe, Her priests teach for pay, And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,“ Is the Lord not in our midst? Catastrophe will not come upon us.”
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James 2:6-7
But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court?Do they not blaspheme the good name by which you have been called?