Ezekiel 22:29
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The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
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Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.
You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.
They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.