Jeremiah 4:22
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22 “For my people are foolish;
they do not know me;
they are stupid children;
they have no understanding.
They are skilled in doing evil
but do not know how to do good.”(A)
Amos 5:7
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7 Ah, you who turn justice to wormwood
and bring righteousness to the ground!
Amos 6:12
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12 Do horses run on rocky crags?
Does one plow the sea with oxen?[a]
But you have turned justice into poison
and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,(A)
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- 6.12 Or Does one plow them with oxen
Habakkuk 2:8-11
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8 Because you have plundered many nations,
all who survive of the peoples shall plunder you—
because of human bloodshed and violence to the earth,
to cities and all who live in them.(A)
9 “Alas for you who get evil gain for your house,
setting your nest on high
to be safe from the reach of harm!”(B)
10 You have devised shame for your house
by cutting off many peoples;
you have forfeited your life.(C)
11 The very stones will cry out from the wall,
and the rafter will respond from the woodwork.
Zephaniah 1:9
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9 On that day I will punish
all who leap over the threshold,
who fill their master’s house
with violence and fraud.(A)
Zechariah 5:3
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3 Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land, for everyone who has stolen, as is forbidden on one side, has gone unpunished, and everyone who has sworn falsely,[a] as is forbidden on the other side, has gone unpunished.(A)
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Zechariah 5:4
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4 I have sent it out, says the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name, and it shall abide in that house and consume it, both timber and stones.”(A)
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