Hosea 12:7

American Standard Version (1901)

[He is] a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

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  • Prov 11:1 : 1 A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; But a just weight is his delight.
  • Prov 16:11 : 11 A just balance and scales are Jehovah's; All the weights of the bag are his work.
  • Isa 3:5 : 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 old man, and the base against the honorable.
  • Ezek 16:3 : 3 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yea, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.
  • Amos 2:7 : 7 they that pant after 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 go unto the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name:
  • Amos 3:9 : 9 Publish ye 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 what great tumults are therein, and what oppressions in the midst thereof.
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink.
  • Amos 5:11 : 11 Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.
  • Amos 8:5-6 : 5 saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; 6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice? 2 ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
  • Mic 6:10-11 : 10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable? 11 Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The godly man is 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.
  • Zech 14:21 : 21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy unto Jehovah of hosts; and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil therein: and in that day there shall be no more a Canaanite in the house of Jehovah of hosts.
  • Mal 3:5 : 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 the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner [from his right], and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
  • John 2:16 : 16 and to them that sold the doves he said, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
  • Lev 19:35-36 : 35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
  • 1 Sam 12:3 : 3 Here I am: witness against me before Jehovah, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

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    6Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

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    16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [gain], [And] he that giveth to the rich, [shall come] only to want.

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    12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store.

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    10In whose hands is wickedness, And their right hand is full of bribes.

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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

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    16With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.

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    16The prince that lacketh understanding is also a great oppressor; [But] he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

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    19For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

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    11A just balance and scales are Jehovah's; All the weights of the bag are his work.

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    7Surely extortion maketh the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroyeth the understanding.

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    13transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

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    8He that augmenteth his substance by interest and increase, Gathereth it for him that hath pity on the poor.

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    9He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.

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    2And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

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