Amos 8:4
"Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,"
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- Proverbs 30:14
"There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men."
Read in chapter → - Amos 5:11
"Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 14:4
"Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 32:6
"For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 12:5
"For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 140:12
"I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor."
Read in chapter → - Amos 2:6
"Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;"
Read in chapter → - Matthew 23:13
"But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in."
Read in chapter → - James 5:6
"Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 5:21
"Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:"
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