Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Business life » Dishonesty » Extortion
and to deprive the afflicted among my people of justice,
so that widows can be their spoil
and they can plunder the fatherless.
People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood. You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors. You have forgotten Me.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
Verse Concepts
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.
He told them, “Don’t collect any more than what you have been authorized.”
Verse Concepts
I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.
Verse Concepts
Injustice » Punishment of
so we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath,
so we may market wheat?
We can reduce the measure
while increasing the price
and cheat with dishonest scales.
collects it for one who is kind to the poor.
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.
his expectation comes to nothing,
and hope placed in wealth
and all who dwell in it mourn?
All of it will rise like the Nile;
it will surge and then subside
like the Nile in Egypt.
This means one must not transgress against and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you.
Verse Concepts
The poor » The wicked » Tread down
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.
Stones » Houses built of
but we will rebuild with cut stones;
the sycamores have been cut down,
but we will replace them with cedars.”
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.
Tax » Paid in grain
The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout—after the cutting of the king’s hay.
Verse Concepts
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.
Vices » Dishonesty » Extortion
and to deprive the afflicted among my people of justice,
so that widows can be their spoil
and they can plunder the fatherless.
People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood. You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors. You have forgotten Me.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
Verse Concepts
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.
He told them, “Don’t collect any more than what you have been authorized.”
Verse Concepts
I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.
Verse Concepts
Vineyards » The wicked judicially deprived of the enjoyment of
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.
and their houses a ruin.
They will build houses but never live in them,
plant vineyards but never drink their wine.