Isaiah 1:23 Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love graft and chase after bribes. They do not defend the rights of the fatherless, and the widow’s case...

1:23 CSB

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Christian Standard Bible - Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love graft and chase after bribes. They do not defend the rights of the fatherless, and the widow’s case never comes before them.
新标点和合本 - 你的官长居心悖逆，与盗贼作伴，各都喜爱贿赂，追求赃私。他们不为孤儿伸冤；寡妇的案件也不得呈到他们面前。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 你的官长悖逆，与盗贼为伍，全都喜爱贿赂，追求赃物；他们不为孤儿伸冤，寡妇的案件也呈不到他们面前。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 你的官长悖逆，与盗贼为伍，全都喜爱贿赂，追求赃物；他们不为孤儿伸冤，寡妇的案件也呈不到他们面前。
当代译本 - 你的首领是叛逆之徒，与盗贼为伍，个个喜爱贿赂，贪图好处，不为孤儿辩护，不替寡妇申冤。
圣经新译本 - 你的官长存心悖逆，与盗贼同伙；人都贪爱贿赂，追索私酬；他们不替孤儿伸冤，寡妇的案件也呈不到他们面前。
中文标准译本 - 你的首领们悖逆，与盗贼同伙；他们都贪爱贿赂，追逐赃酬；他们不为孤儿伸冤；寡妇的争讼也达不到他们面前。
现代标点和合本 - 你的官长居心悖逆，与盗贼做伴，各都喜爱贿赂，追求赃私。他们不为孤儿申冤，寡妇的案件也不得呈到他们面前。
和合本（拼音版） - 你的官长居心悖逆，与盗贼作伴，各都喜爱贿赂，追求赃私。他们不为孤儿伸冤，寡妇的案件也不得呈到他们面前。
New International Version - Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.
New International Reader's Version - Your rulers refuse to obey the Lord. They join forces with robbers. All of them love to accept money from those who want special favors. They are always looking for gifts from other people. They don’t stand up in court for children whose fathers have died. They don’t do it for widows either.
English Standard Version - Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow’s cause does not come to them.
New Living Translation - Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them love bribes and demand payoffs, but they refuse to defend the cause of orphans or fight for the rights of widows.
New American Standard Bible - 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.
New King James Version - Your princes are rebellious, And companions of thieves; Everyone loves bribes, And follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.
Amplified Bible - Your rulers are rebels And companions of thieves; Everyone loves bribes And chases after gifts. They do not defend the fatherless, Nor does the widow’s cause come before them [instead they delay or turn a deaf ear].
American Standard Version - Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
King James Version - Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
New English Translation - Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.
World English Bible - Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
新標點和合本 - 你的官長居心悖逆，與盜賊作伴，各都喜愛賄賂，追求贓私。他們不為孤兒伸冤；寡婦的案件也不得呈到他們面前。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 你的官長悖逆，與盜賊為伍，全都喜愛賄賂，追求贓物；他們不為孤兒伸冤，寡婦的案件也呈不到他們面前。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 你的官長悖逆，與盜賊為伍，全都喜愛賄賂，追求贓物；他們不為孤兒伸冤，寡婦的案件也呈不到他們面前。
當代譯本 - 你的首領是叛逆之徒，與盜賊為伍，個個喜愛賄賂，貪圖好處，不為孤兒辯護，不替寡婦伸冤。
聖經新譯本 - 你的官長存心悖逆，與盜賊同夥；人都貪愛賄賂，追索私酬；他們不替孤兒伸冤，寡婦的案件也呈不到他們面前。
呂振中譯本 - 你的大官倔強要造反，跟盜賊作伴；個個都喜愛賄賂，追求私酬；他們不為孤兒伸冤；寡婦的案件呈不到他們面前。
中文標準譯本 - 你的首領們悖逆，與盜賊同夥；他們都貪愛賄賂，追逐贓酬；他們不為孤兒伸冤；寡婦的爭訟也達不到他們面前。
現代標點和合本 - 你的官長居心悖逆，與盜賊做伴，各都喜愛賄賂，追求贓私。他們不為孤兒申冤，寡婦的案件也不得呈到他們面前。
文理和合譯本 - 爾之牧伯悖逆、黨於盜賊、好賄賂、索苞苴、不伸孤子之冤、不理嫠婦之訟、○
文理委辦譯本 - 爾之君長悖逆乎我、與盜為侶、好賄賂、納苞苴、孤子嫠婦、不伸其冤。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 爾之侯伯悖逆、與盜為侶、俱好賄賂、求贓私、不為孤子辨屈、嫠婦不敢至前訴冤、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Tus gobernantes son rebeldes, cómplices de ladrones; todos aman el soborno y van detrás de las prebendas. No abogan por el huérfano, ni se ocupan de la causa de la viuda.
현대인의 성경 - 너의 지도자들은 반역자요, 도둑들과 한패이며 하나같이 뇌물과 선물 받기를 좋아하고 고아와 과부의 억울한 문제를 해결해 주지 않는구나.
Новый Русский Перевод - Правители твои – изменники и сообщники воров; все они любят взятки и гоняются за подарками. Не защищают они сироту, дело вдовы до них не доходит.
Восточный перевод - Твои правители – изменники и сообщники воров; все они любят взятки и гоняются за подарками. Не защищают они сироту, дело вдовы до них не доходит.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Твои правители – изменники и сообщники воров; все они любят взятки и гоняются за подарками. Не защищают они сироту, дело вдовы до них не доходит.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Твои правители – изменники и сообщники воров; все они любят взятки и гоняются за подарками. Не защищают они сироту, дело вдовы до них не доходит.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Tes chefs sont des rebelles, complices de voleurs, tous aiment les pots-de-vin et sont avides de présents, ils ne défendent pas ╵les droits de l’orphelin ; la cause de la veuve ╵jamais ne leur parvient.
リビングバイブル - 指導者たちは謀反人、どろぼうの仲間で、だれもかれもわいろを取り、未亡人やみなしごの肩をもたない。」
Nova Versão Internacional - Seus líderes são rebeldes, amigos de ladrões; todos eles amam o suborno e andam atrás de presentes. Eles não defendem os direitos do órfão, e não tomam conhecimento da causa da viúva.
Hoffnung für alle - Deine führenden Männer sind Aufrührer und machen mit Betrügern gemeinsame Sache. Sie lieben Geschenke und Bestechungsgelder. Um das Recht von hilflosen Waisen kümmern sie sich nicht, und Hilfe suchende Witwen lassen sie gleich an der Tür abweisen.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Những người lãnh đạo ngươi đều phản loạn, thông đồng với phường trộm cướp. Tất cả đều ưa của hối lộ và chạy theo tài lợi, không chịu bênh vực người mồ côi, hay đấu tranh vì lẽ phải cho những quả phụ.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ผู้นำของเจ้าเป็นกบฏ เป็นเพื่อนกับขโมย ทุกคนรักสินบน ตามล่าของกำนัล พวกเขาไม่ปกป้องลูกกำพร้าพ่อ และไม่พิจารณาคดีของหญิงม่าย
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - บรรดาผู้นำของพวกท่านก็เป็นพวกขัดขืน คบค้ากับโจร ทุกคนรักสินบน และรับของกำนัล ไม่รักษาสิทธิของเด็กกำพร้า และหญิงม่ายไม่ได้รับความช่วยเหลือ

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Matthew 21:13 - He said to them, “It is written, my house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of thieves!”
2 Chronicles 24:17 - However, after Jehoiada died, the rulers of Judah came and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them,
2 Chronicles 24:18 - and they abandoned the temple of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and served the Asherah poles and the idols. So there was wrath against Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.
2 Chronicles 24:19 - Nevertheless, he sent them prophets to bring them back to the Lord; they admonished them, but the people would not listen.
2 Chronicles 24:20 - The Spirit of God enveloped Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood above the people and said to them, “This is what God says, ‘Why are you transgressing the Lord’s commands so that you do not prosper? Because you have abandoned the Lord, he has abandoned you.’”
2 Chronicles 24:21 - But they conspired against him and stoned him at the king’s command in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple.
Hosea 7:3 - They please the king with their evil, the princes with their lies.
Hosea 7:4 - All of them commit adultery; they are like an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
Hosea 7:5 - On the day of our king, the princes are sick with the heat of wine — there is a conspiracy with traitors.
Micah 3:11 - Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practice divination for silver. Yet they lean on the Lord, saying, “Isn’t the Lord among us? No disaster will overtake us.”
Malachi 3:5 - “I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident alien. They do not fear me,” says the Lord of Armies.
Proverbs 17:23 - A wicked person secretly takes a bribe to subvert the course of justice.
Hosea 9:15 - All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. I will drive them from my house because of their evil, wicked actions. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
Isaiah 3:14 - The Lord brings this charge against the elders and leaders of his people: “You have devastated the vineyard. The plunder from the poor is in your houses.
Daniel 9:5 - we have sinned, done wrong, acted wickedly, rebelled, and turned away from your commands and ordinances.
Daniel 9:6 - We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, leaders, ancestors, and all the people of the land.
2 Chronicles 36:14 - All the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, imitating all the detestable practices of the nations, and they defiled the Lord’s temple that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 33:15 - The one who lives righteously and speaks rightly, who refuses profit from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots and shuts his eyes against evil schemes —
Luke 19:46 - and he said, “It is written, my house will be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves!”
Deuteronomy 16:19 - Do not deny justice or show partiality to anyone. Do not accept a bribe, for it blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
Acts 4:5 - The next day, their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem
Acts 4:6 - with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all the members of the high-priestly family.
Acts 4:7 - After they had Peter and John stand before them, they began to question them: “By what power or in what name have you done this?”
Acts 4:8 - Then Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders:
Acts 4:9 - If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a disabled man, by what means he was healed,
Acts 4:10 - let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead — by him this man is standing here before you healthy.
Acts 4:11 - This Jesus is the stone rejected by you builders, which has become the cornerstone.
Micah 3:1 - Then I said, “Now listen, leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Aren’t you supposed to know what is just?
Micah 3:2 - You hate good and love evil. You tear off people’s skin and strip their flesh from their bones.
Micah 3:3 - You eat the flesh of my people after you strip their skin from them and break their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”
Jeremiah 5:28 - They have become fat and sleek. They have also excelled in evil matters. They have not taken up cases, such as the case of the fatherless, so they might prosper, and they have not defended the rights of the needy.
Jeremiah 5:29 - Should I not punish them for these things? This is the Lord’s declaration. Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?
Mark 11:17 - He was teaching them: “Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves!”
Proverbs 29:24 - To be a thief’s partner is to hate oneself; he hears the curse but will not testify.
Jeremiah 5:5 - I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God. However, these also had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
Ezekiel 22:6 - “‘Look, every prince of Israel within you has used his strength to shed blood.
Ezekiel 22:7 - Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the resident alien is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.
Ezekiel 22:8 - You despise my holy things and profane my Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 22:9 - There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood. People who live in you eat at the mountain shrines; they commit depraved acts within you.
Ezekiel 22:10 - Men within you have sexual intercourse with their father’s wife and violate women during their menstrual impurity.
Ezekiel 22:11 - One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbor’s wife; another defiles his daughter-in-law with depravity; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.
Ezekiel 22:12 - People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood. You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors. You have forgotten me. This is the declaration of the Lord God.
Jeremiah 22:17 - But you have eyes and a heart for nothing except your own dishonest profit, shedding innocent blood and committing extortion and oppression.
Hosea 4:18 - When their drinking is over, they turn to promiscuity. Israel’s leaders fervently love disgrace.
Isaiah 10:1 - Woe to those enacting crooked statutes and writing oppressive laws
Isaiah 10:2 - to keep the poor from getting a fair trial and to deprive the needy among my people of justice, so that widows can be their spoil and they can plunder the fatherless.
Luke 18:2 - “There was a judge in a certain town who didn’t fear God or respect people.
Luke 18:3 - And a widow in that town kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
Luke 18:4 - “For a while he was unwilling, but later he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or respect people,
Luke 18:5 - yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice, so that she doesn’t wear me out by her persistent coming.’”
Zechariah 7:10 - Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the resident alien or the poor, and do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
Exodus 23:8 - You must not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and corrupts the words of the righteous.
Micah 7:3 - Both hands are good at accomplishing evil: the official and the judge demand a bribe; when the powerful man communicates his evil desire, they plot it together.

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Christian Standard Bible - Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love graft and chase after bribes. They do not defend the rights of the fatherless, and the widow’s case never comes before them.
新标点和合本 - 你的官长居心悖逆，与盗贼作伴，各都喜爱贿赂，追求赃私。他们不为孤儿伸冤；寡妇的案件也不得呈到他们面前。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 你的官长悖逆，与盗贼为伍，全都喜爱贿赂，追求赃物；他们不为孤儿伸冤，寡妇的案件也呈不到他们面前。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 你的官长悖逆，与盗贼为伍，全都喜爱贿赂，追求赃物；他们不为孤儿伸冤，寡妇的案件也呈不到他们面前。
当代译本 - 你的首领是叛逆之徒，与盗贼为伍，个个喜爱贿赂，贪图好处，不为孤儿辩护，不替寡妇申冤。
圣经新译本 - 你的官长存心悖逆，与盗贼同伙；人都贪爱贿赂，追索私酬；他们不替孤儿伸冤，寡妇的案件也呈不到他们面前。
中文标准译本 - 你的首领们悖逆，与盗贼同伙；他们都贪爱贿赂，追逐赃酬；他们不为孤儿伸冤；寡妇的争讼也达不到他们面前。
现代标点和合本 - 你的官长居心悖逆，与盗贼做伴，各都喜爱贿赂，追求赃私。他们不为孤儿申冤，寡妇的案件也不得呈到他们面前。
和合本（拼音版） - 你的官长居心悖逆，与盗贼作伴，各都喜爱贿赂，追求赃私。他们不为孤儿伸冤，寡妇的案件也不得呈到他们面前。
New International Version - Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.
New International Reader's Version - Your rulers refuse to obey the Lord. They join forces with robbers. All of them love to accept money from those who want special favors. They are always looking for gifts from other people. They don’t stand up in court for children whose fathers have died. They don’t do it for widows either.
English Standard Version - Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow’s cause does not come to them.
New Living Translation - Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them love bribes and demand payoffs, but they refuse to defend the cause of orphans or fight for the rights of widows.
New American Standard Bible - 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.
New King James Version - Your princes are rebellious, And companions of thieves; Everyone loves bribes, And follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.
Amplified Bible - Your rulers are rebels And companions of thieves; Everyone loves bribes And chases after gifts. They do not defend the fatherless, Nor does the widow’s cause come before them [instead they delay or turn a deaf ear].
American Standard Version - Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
King James Version - Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
New English Translation - Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.
World English Bible - Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
新標點和合本 - 你的官長居心悖逆，與盜賊作伴，各都喜愛賄賂，追求贓私。他們不為孤兒伸冤；寡婦的案件也不得呈到他們面前。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 你的官長悖逆，與盜賊為伍，全都喜愛賄賂，追求贓物；他們不為孤兒伸冤，寡婦的案件也呈不到他們面前。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 你的官長悖逆，與盜賊為伍，全都喜愛賄賂，追求贓物；他們不為孤兒伸冤，寡婦的案件也呈不到他們面前。
當代譯本 - 你的首領是叛逆之徒，與盜賊為伍，個個喜愛賄賂，貪圖好處，不為孤兒辯護，不替寡婦伸冤。
聖經新譯本 - 你的官長存心悖逆，與盜賊同夥；人都貪愛賄賂，追索私酬；他們不替孤兒伸冤，寡婦的案件也呈不到他們面前。
呂振中譯本 - 你的大官倔強要造反，跟盜賊作伴；個個都喜愛賄賂，追求私酬；他們不為孤兒伸冤；寡婦的案件呈不到他們面前。
中文標準譯本 - 你的首領們悖逆，與盜賊同夥；他們都貪愛賄賂，追逐贓酬；他們不為孤兒伸冤；寡婦的爭訟也達不到他們面前。
現代標點和合本 - 你的官長居心悖逆，與盜賊做伴，各都喜愛賄賂，追求贓私。他們不為孤兒申冤，寡婦的案件也不得呈到他們面前。
文理和合譯本 - 爾之牧伯悖逆、黨於盜賊、好賄賂、索苞苴、不伸孤子之冤、不理嫠婦之訟、○
文理委辦譯本 - 爾之君長悖逆乎我、與盜為侶、好賄賂、納苞苴、孤子嫠婦、不伸其冤。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 爾之侯伯悖逆、與盜為侶、俱好賄賂、求贓私、不為孤子辨屈、嫠婦不敢至前訴冤、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Tus gobernantes son rebeldes, cómplices de ladrones; todos aman el soborno y van detrás de las prebendas. No abogan por el huérfano, ni se ocupan de la causa de la viuda.
현대인의 성경 - 너의 지도자들은 반역자요, 도둑들과 한패이며 하나같이 뇌물과 선물 받기를 좋아하고 고아와 과부의 억울한 문제를 해결해 주지 않는구나.
Новый Русский Перевод - Правители твои – изменники и сообщники воров; все они любят взятки и гоняются за подарками. Не защищают они сироту, дело вдовы до них не доходит.
Восточный перевод - Твои правители – изменники и сообщники воров; все они любят взятки и гоняются за подарками. Не защищают они сироту, дело вдовы до них не доходит.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Твои правители – изменники и сообщники воров; все они любят взятки и гоняются за подарками. Не защищают они сироту, дело вдовы до них не доходит.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Твои правители – изменники и сообщники воров; все они любят взятки и гоняются за подарками. Не защищают они сироту, дело вдовы до них не доходит.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Tes chefs sont des rebelles, complices de voleurs, tous aiment les pots-de-vin et sont avides de présents, ils ne défendent pas ╵les droits de l’orphelin ; la cause de la veuve ╵jamais ne leur parvient.
リビングバイブル - 指導者たちは謀反人、どろぼうの仲間で、だれもかれもわいろを取り、未亡人やみなしごの肩をもたない。」
Nova Versão Internacional - Seus líderes são rebeldes, amigos de ladrões; todos eles amam o suborno e andam atrás de presentes. Eles não defendem os direitos do órfão, e não tomam conhecimento da causa da viúva.
Hoffnung für alle - Deine führenden Männer sind Aufrührer und machen mit Betrügern gemeinsame Sache. Sie lieben Geschenke und Bestechungsgelder. Um das Recht von hilflosen Waisen kümmern sie sich nicht, und Hilfe suchende Witwen lassen sie gleich an der Tür abweisen.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Những người lãnh đạo ngươi đều phản loạn, thông đồng với phường trộm cướp. Tất cả đều ưa của hối lộ và chạy theo tài lợi, không chịu bênh vực người mồ côi, hay đấu tranh vì lẽ phải cho những quả phụ.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ผู้นำของเจ้าเป็นกบฏ เป็นเพื่อนกับขโมย ทุกคนรักสินบน ตามล่าของกำนัล พวกเขาไม่ปกป้องลูกกำพร้าพ่อ และไม่พิจารณาคดีของหญิงม่าย
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - บรรดาผู้นำของพวกท่านก็เป็นพวกขัดขืน คบค้ากับโจร ทุกคนรักสินบน และรับของกำนัล ไม่รักษาสิทธิของเด็กกำพร้า และหญิงม่ายไม่ได้รับความช่วยเหลือ

Matthew 21:13 - He said to them, “It is written, my house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of thieves!”
2 Chronicles 24:17 - However, after Jehoiada died, the rulers of Judah came and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them,
2 Chronicles 24:18 - and they abandoned the temple of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and served the Asherah poles and the idols. So there was wrath against Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.
2 Chronicles 24:19 - Nevertheless, he sent them prophets to bring them back to the Lord; they admonished them, but the people would not listen.
2 Chronicles 24:20 - The Spirit of God enveloped Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood above the people and said to them, “This is what God says, ‘Why are you transgressing the Lord’s commands so that you do not prosper? Because you have abandoned the Lord, he has abandoned you.’”
2 Chronicles 24:21 - But they conspired against him and stoned him at the king’s command in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple.
Hosea 7:3 - They please the king with their evil, the princes with their lies.
Hosea 7:4 - All of them commit adultery; they are like an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
Hosea 7:5 - On the day of our king, the princes are sick with the heat of wine — there is a conspiracy with traitors.
Micah 3:11 - Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practice divination for silver. Yet they lean on the Lord, saying, “Isn’t the Lord among us? No disaster will overtake us.”
Malachi 3:5 - “I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident alien. They do not fear me,” says the Lord of Armies.
Proverbs 17:23 - A wicked person secretly takes a bribe to subvert the course of justice.
Hosea 9:15 - All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. I will drive them from my house because of their evil, wicked actions. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
Isaiah 3:14 - The Lord brings this charge against the elders and leaders of his people: “You have devastated the vineyard. The plunder from the poor is in your houses.
Daniel 9:5 - we have sinned, done wrong, acted wickedly, rebelled, and turned away from your commands and ordinances.
Daniel 9:6 - We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, leaders, ancestors, and all the people of the land.
2 Chronicles 36:14 - All the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, imitating all the detestable practices of the nations, and they defiled the Lord’s temple that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 33:15 - The one who lives righteously and speaks rightly, who refuses profit from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots and shuts his eyes against evil schemes —
Luke 19:46 - and he said, “It is written, my house will be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves!”
Deuteronomy 16:19 - Do not deny justice or show partiality to anyone. Do not accept a bribe, for it blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
Acts 4:5 - The next day, their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem
Acts 4:6 - with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all the members of the high-priestly family.
Acts 4:7 - After they had Peter and John stand before them, they began to question them: “By what power or in what name have you done this?”
Acts 4:8 - Then Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders:
Acts 4:9 - If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a disabled man, by what means he was healed,
Acts 4:10 - let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead — by him this man is standing here before you healthy.
Acts 4:11 - This Jesus is the stone rejected by you builders, which has become the cornerstone.
Micah 3:1 - Then I said, “Now listen, leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Aren’t you supposed to know what is just?
Micah 3:2 - You hate good and love evil. You tear off people’s skin and strip their flesh from their bones.
Micah 3:3 - You eat the flesh of my people after you strip their skin from them and break their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”
Jeremiah 5:28 - They have become fat and sleek. They have also excelled in evil matters. They have not taken up cases, such as the case of the fatherless, so they might prosper, and they have not defended the rights of the needy.
Jeremiah 5:29 - Should I not punish them for these things? This is the Lord’s declaration. Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?
Mark 11:17 - He was teaching them: “Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves!”
Proverbs 29:24 - To be a thief’s partner is to hate oneself; he hears the curse but will not testify.
Jeremiah 5:5 - I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God. However, these also had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
Ezekiel 22:6 - “‘Look, every prince of Israel within you has used his strength to shed blood.
Ezekiel 22:7 - Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the resident alien is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.
Ezekiel 22:8 - You despise my holy things and profane my Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 22:9 - There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood. People who live in you eat at the mountain shrines; they commit depraved acts within you.
Ezekiel 22:10 - Men within you have sexual intercourse with their father’s wife and violate women during their menstrual impurity.
Ezekiel 22:11 - One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbor’s wife; another defiles his daughter-in-law with depravity; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.
Ezekiel 22:12 - People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood. You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors. You have forgotten me. This is the declaration of the Lord God.
Jeremiah 22:17 - But you have eyes and a heart for nothing except your own dishonest profit, shedding innocent blood and committing extortion and oppression.
Hosea 4:18 - When their drinking is over, they turn to promiscuity. Israel’s leaders fervently love disgrace.
Isaiah 10:1 - Woe to those enacting crooked statutes and writing oppressive laws
Isaiah 10:2 - to keep the poor from getting a fair trial and to deprive the needy among my people of justice, so that widows can be their spoil and they can plunder the fatherless.
Luke 18:2 - “There was a judge in a certain town who didn’t fear God or respect people.
Luke 18:3 - And a widow in that town kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
Luke 18:4 - “For a while he was unwilling, but later he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or respect people,
Luke 18:5 - yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice, so that she doesn’t wear me out by her persistent coming.’”
Zechariah 7:10 - Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the resident alien or the poor, and do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
Exodus 23:8 - You must not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and corrupts the words of the righteous.
Micah 7:3 - Both hands are good at accomplishing evil: the official and the judge demand a bribe; when the powerful man communicates his evil desire, they plot it together.