Verse 14

The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is] in your houses.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 22:4 : 4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
  • Isa 3:2-3 : 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, 3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
  • Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
  • Jer 5:27 : 27 As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 ¶ Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that [are] in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
  • Mic 2:2 : 2 And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
  • Mic 6:10 : 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?
  • Matt 21:33 : 33 ¶ ‹Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:›
  • Jas 2:6 : 6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
  • Job 24:2-7 : 2 [Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof]. 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 5 Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children. 6 They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. 7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.
  • Job 24:9 : 9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
  • Job 34:23 : 23 For he will not lay upon man more [than right]; that he should enter into judgment with God.
  • Ps 14:4 : 4 ¶ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.