Hosea 12:7

Lighthouse Bible 2006

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.

Cross References

Genesis 49:18

I have waited for your salvation, O LORD.

Proverbs 11:1

A false balance is an abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

Proverbs 16:11

A just weight and balance are the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Isaiah 3:5

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable.

Isaiah 56:1

Thus says the LORD, Keep justice, and do righteousness: for my salvation is soon to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

Ezekiel 16:3

And say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem; Your birth and your nativity is of the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have troubled the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

Ezekiel 28:5

By your great wisdom and by your trade have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches:

Hosea 14:2

Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we return the sacrifices of our lips.

Joel 2:12

Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

Amos 2:7

Who covet the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in to the same maid, to profane my holy name:

Amos 3:9

Announce in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

Amos 5:11

Seeing therefore that your trampling is upon the poor, and you take from him loads of wheat: you have built houses of cut stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 7:2

The good man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Zechariah 14:21

Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness to the LORD of hosts: and all those who sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil in them: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah 5:8

And he said, This is wickedness. And he pushed her into the midst of the ephah; and he threw the weight of lead down upon its mouth.

Zechariah 7:9

Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.

John 2:16

And said to those who sold doves, Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of merchandise.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which are by you kept back by fraud, cry out: and the cries of those who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

1 Samuel 12:3

Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose donkey have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or from whose hand have I received any bribe to blind my eyes therewith? and I will restore it to you.