Hosea 12:7

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The Lord Refutes Israel’s False Claim of Innocence The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.

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  • Prov 11:1 : 1 The LORD abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.
  • Prov 16:11 : 11 Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.
  • Isa 3:5 : 5 The people will treat each other harshly; men will oppose each other; neighbors will fight. Youths will proudly defy the elderly and riffraff will challenge those who were once respected.
  • Ezek 16:3 : 3 and say,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the resident foreigner and denied them justice.
  • Amos 2:7 : 7 They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.
  • Amos 3:9 : 9 Samaria Will Fall Make this announcement in the fortresses of Ashdod and in the fortresses in the land of Egypt. Say this:“Gather on the hills around Samaria! Observe the many acts of violence taking place within the city, the oppressive deeds occurring in it.”
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands,“Bring us more to drink!”
  • Amos 5:11 : 11 Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.
  • Amos 8:5-6 : 5 You say,“When will the new moon festival be over, so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, so we can open up the grain bins? We’re eager to sell less for a higher price, and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales! 6 We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!”
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 God Will Judge Judah’s Sinful Leaders I said,“Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You ought to know what is just, 2 yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people’s skin and rip the flesh from their bones. 3 You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot– like meat in a kettle.
  • Mic 6:10-11 : 10 “I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much. 11 I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.
  • Zech 14:21 : 21 Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah will become holy in the sight of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, so that all who offer sacrifices may come and use some of them to boil their sacrifices in them. On that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 “I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the resident foreigner and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • John 2:16 : 16 To those who sold the doves he said,“Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Lev 19:35-36 : 35 You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume. 36 You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
  • 1 Sam 12:3 : 3 Here I am. Bring a charge against me before the LORD and before his chosen king. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe so that I would overlook something? Tell me, and I will return it to you!”

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    10“I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.

    11I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.

    12The city’s wealthy people readily resort to violence; her inhabitants tell lies, their tongues speak deceptive words.

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    8Ephraim boasts,“I am very rich! I have become wealthy! In all that I have done to gain my wealth, no one can accuse me of any offense that is actually sinful.”

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    4Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

    5You say,“When will the new moon festival be over, so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, so we can open up the grain bins? We’re eager to sell less for a higher price, and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales!

    6We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!”

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    12oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to idols, performs abominable acts,

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    1The LORD abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3They are experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men announce what they wish and then they plan it out.

  • Ps 52:7
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    12They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.

    13“‘See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you.

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    14See the one who is pregnant with wickedness, who conceives destructive plans, and gives birth to harmful lies–

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    6But you must return to your God, by maintaining love and justice, and by waiting for your God to return to you.

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    23The LORD abhors differing weights, and dishonest scales are wicked.

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    15The one who lives uprightly and speaks honestly; the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures and rejects a bribe; the one who does not plot violent crimes and does not seek to harm others–

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    16The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.

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    11Ephraim will be oppressed, crushed under judgment, because he was determined to pursue worthless idols.

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    12Certainly I am aware of your many rebellious acts and your numerous sins. You torment the innocent, you take bribes, and you deny justice to the needy at the city gate.

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    29The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the resident foreigner and denied them justice.

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    10who are always ready to do wrong or offer a bribe.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of curses and deceptive, harmful words; his tongue injures and destroys.

  • Job 12:16
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  • Prov 28:16
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    16The prince who is a great oppressor lacks wisdom, but the one who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

  • Job 20:19
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    19For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.

  • Prov 16:11
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    11Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.

  • Eccl 7:7
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  • Isa 59:13
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    13We have rebelled and tried to deceive the LORD; we turned back from following our God. We stir up oppression and rebellion; we tell lies we concocted in our minds.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest gathers it for someone who is gracious to the needy.

  • Isa 30:12
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    12For this reason this is what the Holy One of Israel says:“You have rejected this message; you trust instead in your ability to oppress and trick, and rely on that kind of behavior.

  • Ps 36:3
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    3The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.

  • Ps 10:9
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    9He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net.

  • Prov 14:31
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    31The one who oppresses the poor has insulted his Creator, but whoever honors him shows favor to the needy.

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    2They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.

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    14But Ephraim bitterly provoked him to anger; so he will hold him accountable for the blood he has shed, his Lord will repay him for the contempt he has shown.

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    2to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

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    17But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.