Zechariah 7:10

Disobedience And Fasting

⁹ 'Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another. ¹⁰ And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart. ¹¹ And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing.

Devise Evil

Let There Be

Oppress the Poor

Oppress the Stranger

Plan Evil

No

Psalm 21:11

For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,

Psalm 72:4

He judgeth the poor of the people, Giveth deliverance to the sons of the needy, And bruiseth the oppressor.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

Jeremiah 5:28

They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

Exodus 22:21-24

'And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, nor crush him, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:9

And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, and ye -- ye have known the soul of the sojourner, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 24:14-18

'Thou dost not oppress a hireling, poor and needy, of thy brethren or of thy sojourner who is in thy land within thy gates;

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursed is he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

Psalm 36:4

Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'

Psalm 140:2

Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble for wars.

Proverbs 3:29

Devise not against thy neighbour evil, And he sitting confidently with thee.

Proverbs 6:18

A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil --

Proverbs 22:22-23

Rob not the poor because he is poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,

Isaiah 1:16-17

Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

Jeremiah 11:19-20

And I am as a trained lamb brought to slaughter, And I have not known That against me they have devised devices: We destroy the tree with its food, and cut him off From the land of the living, And his name is not remembered again.

Jeremiah 18:18

And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

Jeremiah 22:15-17

Dost thou reign, because thou art fretting thyself in cedar? Thy father -- did he not eat and drink? Yea, he did judgment and righteousness, Then it is well with him.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.

Ezekiel 22:12

A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have used oppression, And have taken plunder violently away, And humble and needy have oppressed, And the sojourner oppressed -- without judgment.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, Who are in the mountain of Samaria, Who are oppressing the poor, Who are bruising the needy, Who are saying to their lords: 'Bring in, and we do drink.'

Amos 5:11-12

Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine.

Micah 2:1-3

Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.

Micah 3:1-4

And I say, 'Hear, I pray you, heads of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Is it not for you to know the judgment?

Zephaniah 3:1-3

Woe to the rebellious and polluted, The oppressing city!

Zechariah 8:17

And each the evil of his neighbour ye do not devise in your heart, And a false oath ye do not love, For all these are things that I have hated, An affirmation of Jehovah.'

Malachi 3:5

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

Matthew 23:13

'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.

Mark 7:21-23

for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,

1 Corinthians 6:10

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

James 1:14-15

and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

James 5:4

lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you -- doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;

1 John 3:15

Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,