Amos 6:12
does anyone plow there with oxen?
Yet you have turned justice into poison
and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood
Amos 5:7
throw righteousness to the ground.
Hosea 10:4
taking false oaths while making covenants.
So lawsuits break out
like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
1 Kings 21:7-13
Then his wife Jezebel said to him, “Now, exercise your royal power over Israel. Get up, eat some food, and be happy. For I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
Isaiah 59:13-14
turning away from following our God,
speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.
Amos 5:11-12
and exact a grain tax from him,
you will never live in the houses of cut stone
you have built;
you will never drink the wine
from the lush vineyards
you have planted.
Psalm 94:20-21
one that creates trouble by law—
become Your ally?
Isaiah 48:4
and your neck is iron
and your forehead bronze,
Jeremiah 5:3
You have struck them, but they felt no pain.
You finished them off,
but they refused to accept discipline.
They made their faces harder than rock,
and they refused to return.
Jeremiah 6:29-30
blasting the lead with fire.
The refining is completely in vain;
the evil ones are not separated out.
Hosea 10:13
you have eaten the fruit of lies.
Because you have trusted in your own way
and in your large number of soldiers,
Micah 7:3
the official and the judge demand a bribe;
when the powerful man communicates his evil desire,
they plot it together.
Habakkuk 1:3-4
Why do You tolerate
Oppression and violence are right in front of me.
Strife is ongoing, and conflict escalates.
Zechariah 7:11-12
But they refused to pay attention
Acts 7:51-52
“You stiff-necked
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and your neck is iron
and your forehead bronze,
You have struck them, but they felt no pain.
You finished them off,
but they refused to accept discipline.
They made their faces harder than rock,
and they refused to return.
blasting the lead with fire.
The refining is completely in vain;
the evil ones are not separated out.
For
throw righteousness to the ground.
one that creates trouble by law—
become Your ally?
turning away from following our God,
speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.
taking false oaths while making covenants.
So lawsuits break out
like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
the official and the judge demand a bribe;
when the powerful man communicates his evil desire,
they plot it together.
Why do You tolerate
Oppression and violence are right in front of me.
Strife is ongoing, and conflict escalates.