Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom t
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses yo
You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, go
Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and th
Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.
if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in thi
Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the op
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swa
“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safet
Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come—the time of their punis
Proclaim to the citadels of Ashdod and to the citadels of Egypt: “Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; see the great un
Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers
For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be
If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished
In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have e
Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one a
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the
Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that yo
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they
He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city there, calling it Samaria after the
Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treadi
Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choi
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”