to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers
The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder o
those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocen
who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fathe
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the
if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in thi
to deny a man justice before the Most High,
For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He look
They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his f
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses yo