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Ezekiel 22:13
“‘“ Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been within you.
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Isaiah 1:23
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.
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Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
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Ezekiel 22:6
“‘“ Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
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Ezekiel 22:25
There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made many widows within it.
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Ezekiel 45:9
“‘ The Lord Yahweh says:“ Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh.
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Micah 7:8
Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
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Micah 3:2-3
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
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Hosea 7:1-7
When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.
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James 5:1-4
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth- eaten.Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.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.
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Ezekiel 19:3-6
She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.“‘ Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.He went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
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Matthew 21:13
He said to them,“ It is written,‘ My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”
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Micah 3:9-11
Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say,“ Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”
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James 2:6-7
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?