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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 5:5 — I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, [and] the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, [and] burst the bonds.
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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. |
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Mic 3:1 |
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; [Is it] not for you to know judgment? |
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Mal 2:7 |
For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he [is] the messenger of the LORD of hosts. |
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Jer 6:13 |
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one [is] given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. |
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Psa 2:2 |
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [saying], |
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Psa 2:3 |
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. |
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Eze 22:6 |
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood. |
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Eze 22:7 |
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. |
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Eze 22:8 |
Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. |
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Eze 22:25 |
[There is] a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. |
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Eze 22:26 |
Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed [difference] between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. |
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Eze 22:27 |
Her princes in the midst thereof [are] like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. |
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Eze 22:28 |
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered [morter], seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. |
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Eze 22:29 |
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. |
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Mic 3:1 |
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; [Is it] not for you to know judgment? |
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Mic 3:2 |
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; |
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Mic 3:3 |
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. |
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Mic 3:4 |
Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings. |
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Mic 3:11 |
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us. |
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Mic 7:3 |
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. |
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Mic 7:4 |
The best of them [is] as a brier: the most upright [is sharper] than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen [and] thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. |
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Zep 3:3 |
Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. |
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Zep 3:4 |
Her prophets [are] light [and] treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. |
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Zep 3:5 |
The just LORD [is] in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. |
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Mat 19:23 |
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. |
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Mat 19:24 |
And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. |
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Mat 19:25 |
When his disciples heard [it], they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? |
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Mat 19:26 |
But Jesus beheld [them], and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. |
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Luk 18:24 |
And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! |
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Luk 19:14 |
But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this [man] to reign over us. |
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Act 4:26 |
The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ. |
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Act 4:27 |
For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, |
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Jam 2:5 |
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? |
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Jam 2:6 |
But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? |
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Jam 2:7 |
Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called? |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 5:5," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Jer/5/5.html>.
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