Ezekiel 22:27
Her officials are like wolves in her midst rending their prey -- shedding blood and destroying lives -- so they can get dishonest profit.
Ezekiel 22:13
"'See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you.
Isaiah 1:23
Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.
Ezekiel 22:6
"'See how each of the princes of Israel living within you has used his authority to shed blood.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes are as fierce as roaring lions; her rulers are as hungry as wolves in the desert, who completely devour their prey by morning.
Ezekiel 19:3-6
She reared one of her cubs; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.
Ezekiel 22:25
Her princes within her are like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they have devoured lives. They take away riches and valuable things; they have made many women widows within it.
Ezekiel 45:9
"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction, and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of my people, declares the sovereign Lord.
Hosea 7:1-7
whenever I want to heal Israel, the sin of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria are exposed. For they do what is wrong; thieves break into houses, and gangs rob people out in the streets.
Micah 3:2-3
yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people's skin and rip the flesh from their bones.
Micah 3:9-11
Listen to this, you leaders of the family of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You hate justice and pervert all that is right.
Micah 7:8
My enemies, do not gloat over me! Though I have fallen, I will get up. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.
Matthew 21:13
And he said to them, "It is written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are turning it into a den of robbers!"
James 2:6-7
But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?
James 5:1-4
Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.