They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
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Zechariah 7:10 · 34 connections
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For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: …
End of linked passage: Proverbs 22:23Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; …
End of linked passage: Isaiah 1:17Thy 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.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: …
End of linked passage: Deuteronomy 24:18Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: …
End of linked passage: Proverbs 23:11But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. …
End of linked passage: Jeremiah 11:20Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? …
End of linked passage: Jeremiah 22:17In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. …
End of linked passage: Amos 5:12Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. …
End of linked passage: Micah 2:3And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? …
End of linked passage: Micah 3:4Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! …
End of linked passage: Zephaniah 3:3And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, …
End of linked passage: Mark 7:23Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. …
End of linked passage: James 1:15Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. …
End of linked passage: Exodus 22:24He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
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