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Jer 5:28 — They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

waxen		Deu 32:15; Job 15:27,28; Job 21:23,24; Psa 73:6,7,12; Psa 119:70; Amo 4:1; Jam 5:4,5
overpass		Jer 2:33; Eze 5:6,7; Eze 16:47-52; 1Cr 5:1
judge		Jer 22:15-19; Job 29:12-14; Psa 72:4; Psa 82:2-4; Isa 1:23; Zec 7:10
yet		Jer 12:1; Job 12:6; Psa 73:12

Correlating Passages

waxen

	Deu 32:15	But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness]; then he forsook God [which] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
	Job 15:27	Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks.
	Job 15:28	And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
	Job 21:23	One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
	Job 21:24	His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
	Psa 73:6	Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them [as] a garment.
	Psa 73:7	Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
	Psa 73:12	Behold, these [are] the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase [in] riches.
	Psa 119:70	Their heart is as fat as grease; [but] I delight in thy law.
	Amo 4:1	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.
	Jam 5:4	Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
	Jam 5:5	Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

overpass

	Jer 2:33	Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
	Eze 5:6	And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that [are] round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
	Eze 5:7	Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that [are] round about you, [and] have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that [are] round about you;
	Eze 16:47	Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
	Eze 16:48	[As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
	Eze 16:49	Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
	Eze 16:50	And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].
	Eze 16:51	Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
	Eze 16:52	Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
	1Cr 5:1	It is reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

judge

	Jer 22:15	Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [thyself] in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, [and] then [it was] well with him?
	Jer 22:16	He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well [with him: was] not this to know me? saith the LORD.
	Jer 22:17	But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do [it].
	Jer 22:18	Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
	Jer 22:19	He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
	Job 29:12	Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.
	Job 29:13	The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
	Job 29:14	I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem.
	Psa 72:4	He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
	Psa 82:2	How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
	Psa 82:3	Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
	Psa 82:4	Deliver the poor and needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the wicked.
	Isa 1:23	Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
	Zec 7:10	And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

yet

	Jer 12:1	Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
	Job 12:6	The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly].
	Psa 73:12	Behold, these [are] the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase [in] riches.

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