Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them.
Your rulers are rebels
Isaiah 1:2 Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth! For the LORD has spoken: "I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me."
partners with thieves
Micah 2:1-2 Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning's light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.
Micah 6:12 "Your rich people are violent; your inhabitants are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully."
they all love bribes and chase after gifts
Exodus 23:8 "Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent."
Amos 5:12 For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them.
Isaiah 10:1-2 Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.
Jeremiah 5:27-28 "Like cages full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; they have become rich and powerful and have grown fat and sleek. Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not seek justice. They do not promote the case of the fatherless; they do not defend the just cause of the poor."
Ezekiel 22:6-7 " 'See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you (Jerusalem) uses his power to shed blood. In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.' "
Micah 3:9 Hear this, you leaders if Jacob, you rulers of Israel, who despise justice and distort all the is right; . . .
Habakkuk 1:4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice if perverted.
(parentheses are mine)
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Friday, July 22, 2011
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