Isaiah 3:14

The Lord comes to pronounce judgment on the leaders of his people and their officials. He says, "It is you who have ruined the vineyard! You have stashed in your houses what you have stolen from the poor.

Job 22:4

Is it because of your piety that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you?

Psalm 143:2

Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

Job 24:2-7

Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.

Job 24:9

The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

Job 34:23

For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.

Psalm 14:4

All those who behave wickedly do not understand -- those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the Lord.

Isaiah 3:2-3

the mighty men and warriors, judges and prophets, omen readers and leaders,

Isaiah 5:7

Indeed Israel is the vineyard of the Lord who commands armies, the people of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight. He waited for justice, but look what he got -- disobedience! He waited for fairness, but look what he got -- cries for help!

Jeremiah 5:27

Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.

Amos 4:1

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands, "Bring us more to drink!"

Micah 2:2

They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.

Micah 6:10

"I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.

Matthew 21:33

"Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

The ancients

General references

Bible References

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Job 22:4
Is it because of your piety that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you?
Job 34:23
For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.
Psalm 143:2
Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

The ancients

Isaiah 3:2
the mighty men and warriors, judges and prophets, omen readers and leaders,

Ye have eaten

Isaiah 5:7
Indeed Israel is the vineyard of the Lord who commands armies, the people of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight. He waited for justice, but look what he got -- disobedience! He waited for fairness, but look what he got -- cries for help!
Job 24:2
Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.
Jeremiah 5:27
Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.
Amos 4:1
Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands, "Bring us more to drink!"
Micah 2:2
They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.
Micah 6:10
"I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.
Matthew 21:33
"Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

General references

Leviticus 25:14
If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.

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