-
Psalms 14:4
Will evildoers never understand? They consume my people as they consume bread; they do not call on the LORD.
-
Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, devouring the oppressed from the land and the needy from among mankind.
-
Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from him, you will never live in the houses of cut stone you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
-
Isaiah 32:6-7
For a fool speaks foolishness and his mind plots iniquity. He lives in a godless way and speaks falsely about the LORD. He leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.The scoundrel’s weapons are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the needy with lies, even when the poor person says what is right.
-
Amos 2:6-7
The LORD says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the ground and obstruct the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, profaning my holy name.
-
Isaiah 28:14
Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.
-
Psalms 12:5
“ Because of the devastation of the needy and the groaning of the poor, I will now rise up,” says the LORD.“ I will provide safety for the one who longs for it.”
-
Isaiah 1:10
Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
-
Jeremiah 28:15
The prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah,“ Listen, Hananiah! The LORD did not send you, but you have led these people to trust in a lie.
-
Amos 7:16
Now hear the word of the LORD. You say: Do not prophesy against Israel; do not preach against the house of Isaac.
-
James 5:6
You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous, who does not resist you.
-
Matthew 23:13
“ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.
-
Jeremiah 5:21
Hear this, you foolish and senseless people. They have eyes, but they don’t see. They have ears, but they don’t hear.
-
1 Kings 22 19
Then Micaiah said,“ Therefore, hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and the whole heavenly army was standing by him at his right hand and at his left hand.
-
Psalms 56:1
Be gracious to me, God, for a man is trampling me; he fights and oppresses me all day long.
-
Psalms 140:12
I know that the LORD upholds the just cause of the poor, justice for the needy.