Jeremiah 5:28

They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.

Cross References (21)

  • Isaiah 1:23 (6)

    Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fathe

  • Deuteronomy 32:15 (5)

    But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Ro

  • Jeremiah 7:6 (4)

    if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in thi

  • Psalms 73:12 (4)

    Behold, these are the wicked—always carefree as they increase their wealth.

  • Zechariah 7:10 (4)

    Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one a

  • Job 21:23–24 (2)

    One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.

  • Ezekiel 16:47–52 (2)

    And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.

  • Psalms 119:70 (2)

    Their hearts are callous and insensitive, but I delight in Your law.

  • Psalms 73:6–7 (2)

    Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.

  • Psalms 72:4 (2)

    May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.

  • Amos 4:1 (2)

    Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your

  • 1 Corinthians 5:1 (2)

    It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans:

  • Job 12:6 (2)

    The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.

  • Ezekiel 5:6–7 (2)

    But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countr

  • Jeremiah 22:15–19 (2)

    Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteou

  • Job 29:12–14 (2)

    because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

  • Job 15:27–28 (2)

    Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,

  • Psalms 82:2–4 (2)

    “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

  • Jeremiah 2:33 (2)

    How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.

  • James 5:4–5 (2)

    Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvest

  • Jeremiah 12:1 (2)

    Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the wa