Jeremiah 5:28

Grown fat and sleek through wickedness, they ignore the cause of the orphan and the needy. It matters because their prosperity is paired with callous neglect of justice for the vulnerable.

Cross-references · 21

• Isa 1:23Thy 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.
• Deut 32:15But 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.
• Zech 7:10And 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.
• Ps 73:12Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
• Jer 7:6If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
• Jer 2:33Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
• Job 12:6The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
• Jas 5:4–5Behold, 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.
• Jer 12:1Righteous 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?
• Ps 72:4He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
• Job 15:27–28Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
• Job 21:23–24One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
• Job 29:12–14Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
• Jer 22:15–19Shalt 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?
• 1 Cor 5:1It 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.
• Ps 119:70Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
• Ezek 16:47–52Yet 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.
• Ps 73:6–7Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
• Amos 4:1Hear 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.
• Ezek 5:6–7And 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.
• Ps 82:2–4How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

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