Jeremiah 5:28

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

they have grown fat and sleek. They know no limits in deeds of wickedness; they do not judge with justice the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Cross References

Zechariah 7:10

do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan, and the widow’s cause does not come before them.

Deuteronomy 32:15

Jacob ate his fill; Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. You grew fat, bloated, and gorged! He abandoned God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.

Psalm 73:12

Such are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.

Jeremiah 7:6

if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you and the sort of sexual immorality that is not found even among gentiles, for a man is living with his father’s wife.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring something to drink!”

Jeremiah 12:1

You will be in the right, O Lord, when I lay charges against you, but let me put my case to you. Why does the way of the guilty prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

Jeremiah 2:33

How well you direct your course to seek lovers! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.

Psalm 119:70

Their hearts are thick like fat, but I delight in your law.

Psalm 72:4

May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor.

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hands.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Act with justice and righteousness and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place.

Psalm 73:4

For they have no pain; their bodies are sound and sleek.

Proverbs 15:25

The Lord tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow’s boundaries.