Amos 8:4

"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."

"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. pleasant...: Heb. vineyards of desire"

"Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD."

"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. puffeth...: or, would ensnare him"

"I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor."

"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."

"Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you."

"Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:"