Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
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And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsMine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
Job
WisdomAnd be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThat Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Acts
History / LukeAnd there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
Mark
GospelsThe desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
Judges
HistoryAnd Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
Deuteronomy
LawThe officers answered, Never man spake like this man.
John
Gospels / JohnBehold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsHowbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Exodus
LawAnd ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
James
General Epistles / JamesHe hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
Joel
Minor ProphetsThis is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.