sSee Num. 28:11
Isaiah 10:2
2to turn aside the needy from justiceand ato rob the poor of my people of their right,
that widows may be their spoil,
and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Jeremiah 7:6-10
6if you bdo not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, cor shed innocent blood in this place, dand if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, 7 ethen I will let you dwell in this place, fin the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.8“Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. 9 gWill you steal, murder, commit adultery, hswear falsely, imake offerings to Baal, jand go after other gods that you have not known, 10and then come and stand before me in this house, kwhich is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?
Ezekiel 22:7
7Father and mother lare treated with contempt in you; the sojourner msuffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow nare wronged in you.Amos 2:7
7those who trample the head of the poor ointo the dust of the earthand pturn aside the way of the afflicted;
qa man and his father go in to the same girl,
so that my holy name is profaned;
Amos 8:4-6
4 Hear this, ryou who trample on the needyand bring the poor of the land to an end,
5saying, “When will sthe new moon be over,
that we may sell grain?
And tthe Sabbath,
that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make uthe ephah small and the shekel ▼ great
and deal deceitfully with false balances,
6that we may buy the poor for wsilver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
Micah 2:2
2They covet fields and xseize them,and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
a man and his inheritance.
Micah 2:8
8But lately ymy people have risen up as an enemy;you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly
with no thought of war. ▼
▼Or returning from war
Micah 3:2
2you aawho hate the good and love the evil,abwho tear the skin from off my people ▼
▼Hebrew from off them
and their flesh from off their bones,
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