Jeremiah 5:28

The Scriptures 1998

‘They have become fat, they are sleek. They also overlook the deeds of the wrong. They did not rightly rule the cause of the fatherless, so that they prosper. And the right of the needy they did not rightly rule.

Cross References

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke Ě

Psalm 119:70

Their heart has become like fat, Without feeling; I have delighted in Your Torah.

Psalm 72:4

Let Him rightly rule the poor of the people, Save the children of the needy, And crush the oppressor.

Psalm 73:12

See, these are the wrong, And always at ease, They have amassed wealth!

Psalm 73:4

For death has no pangs for them, And their strength is firm.

Proverbs 15:25

יהוה  tears down the house of the proud, And He sets up the boundary of the widow.

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are stubborn, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and runs after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow reach them.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, O יהוה, when I plead with You. Indeed, let me speak with You about right-rulings. Why has the way of the wrong prospered? All the workers of treachery are at ease?

Jeremiah 2:33

“Why do you embellish your way to seek love? Therefore you have even taught the evil women your ways.

Jeremiah 22:3

‘Thus said יהוה, “Do right-ruling and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do not maltreat nor do violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 7:6

if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other mighty ones to your own evil,

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Shomeron, who are oppressing the poor, who are crushing the needy, who are saying to their masters, “Bring wine, let us drink!”

Zechariah 7:10

“Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the stranger or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is commonly reported that there is whoring among you, and such whoring as is not even named among the gentiles, so as one to have his father’s wife!

Deuteronomy 32:15

“But Yeshurun grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, You are covered with fat; So he forsook Eloah who made him, And scorned the Rock of his deliverance.