4 They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast. 5 They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage. 6 They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
Psalms 94:4–6
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Psalms 73:7–9
7 From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild. 8 They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression. 9 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.
Psalms 69:25–27
25 May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents. 26 For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded. 27 Add iniquity to their iniquity; let them not share in Your righteousness.
2 Esdras 8:56–58
56 For when they had received liberty, they despised the Most High, scorned his law, and forsook his ways. (WEB) 57 Moreover they have trodden down his righteous, (WEB) 58 and said in their heart that there is no God—even knowing that they must die. (WEB)
Baruch 6:37–39
37 They can’t restore a blind man to his sight, or deliver anyone who is in distress. (WEB) 38 They can show no mercy to the widow, or do good to the fatherless. (WEB) 39 They are like the stones that are cut out of the mountain, these gods of wood that are overlaid with gold and w… (WEB)
Job 24:20–22
20 The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree. 21 They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow. 22 Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no…
Job 35:8–10
8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man. 9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty. 10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
2 Maccabees 1:27–29
27 Gather together our scattered people, set at liberty those who are in bondage among the heathen, look upon those who are despised and abhorred, and let the heathen know that you are our God. (WEB) 28 Punish those who oppress us and in arrogance shamefully entreat us. (WEB) 29 Pl… (WEB)
Isaiah 10:1–3
1 Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees, 2 to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder. 3 What will you do on the day of reckoning when d…
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