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 1:23Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
• Deut 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
• Zech 7:10Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
• Ps 73:12Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
• Jer 7:6if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
• Jer 2:33How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways.
• Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
• Jas 5:4–5Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
• Jer 12:1You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
• Ps 72:4He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
• Job 15:27–28because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
• Job 21:23–24One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
• Job 29:12–14Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
• Jer 22:15–19“Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
• 1 Cor 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.
• Ps 119:70Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.
• Ezek 16:47–52Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
• Ps 73:6–7Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
• Amos 4:1Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
• Ezek 5:6–7She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.’
• Ps 82:2–4“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.

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