Isa 1:23, 3:15, 33:15, Jer 5:28, 22:3, Eze 22:7, 29, Amo 5:7-12 | ESV | STEP | Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves . Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts . They do not bring justice to the fatherless , and the widow’s cause does not come to them.

Isaiah 1:23

23 Your princes are rebels
and companions of thieves.
Everyone ^aloves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
^bThey do not bring justice to the fatherless,
and the widow’s cause does not come to them.

Isaiah 3:15

15 What do you mean by ^ccrushing my people,
by grinding the face of the poor?”

declares the Lord God of hosts.

Isaiah 33:15

15 ^dHe who walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
who despises the gain of oppressions,
who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe,
who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed
^eand shuts his eyes from looking on evil,

Jeremiah 5:28

28 ^fthey have grown fat and sleek.
They know no bounds in deeds of evil;
^gthey judge not with justice
the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper,
and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Jeremiah 22:3

3 Thus says the Lord: ^hDo justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And ⁱdo no wrong or violence ^jto the resident alien, ^kthe fatherless, and the widow, nor ^lshed innocent blood in this place.

Ezekiel 22:7

7 Father and mother ^mare treated with contempt in you; the sojourner ⁿsuffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow ^oare wronged in you.

Ezekiel 22:29

29 The people of the land ^phave practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and ^qhave extorted from the sojourner without justice.

Amos 5:7-12

7 O ^ryou who turn justice to wormwood ^{▼▼Or to bitter fruit}
and cast down righteousness to the earth!
8 He who made the ^tPleiades and Orion,
and turns deep darkness into the morning
and ^udarkens the day into night,
who ^vcalls for the waters of the sea
^wand pours them out on the surface of the earth,
^xthe Lord is his name;
9 ^ywho makes destruction flash forth against the strong,
so that destruction comes upon the fortress.
10 ^zThey hate him who reproves ^aain the gate,
and they ^ababhor him who speaks the truth.
11 Therefore because you ^actrample on ^{▼▼Or you tax} the poor
and you exact taxes of grain from him,
^aeyou have built houses of hewn stone,
but you shall not dwell in them;
^afyou have planted pleasant vineyards,
but you shall not drink their wine.
12 For I know how many are your transgressions
and how great are your sins—
you who afflict the righteous, who ^agtake a bribe,
and ^ahturn aside the needy ^aiin the gate.