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Jeremiah 5:28
Jeremiah 5:28 is verse 28 of Jeremiah chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
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Jeremiah 5:26–30 · Berean Standard Bible
26 For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
27 Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
28 They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
29 Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
30 A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land.
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Cross-references
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Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
Job 15:27Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
Job 15:28he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.
Job 21:23One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
Job 21:24His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.
Psalms 73:6Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.
Psalms 73:7From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.
Psalms 73:12Behold, these are the wicked— always carefree as they increase their wealth.
Psalms 119:70Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.
Amos 4:1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
James 5:4Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
James 5:5You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
Jeremiah 2:33How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.
Ezekiel 5:6But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’
Ezekiel 5:7Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.’
Ezekiel 16:47And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.
Ezekiel 16:48As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did as you and your daughters have done.
Ezekiel 16:49Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 16:50Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them, as you have seen.
Ezekiel 16:51Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have multiplied your abominations beyond theirs, and all the abominations you have committed have made your sisters appear righteous.
Ezekiel 16:52So now you must bear your disgrace, since you have brought justification for your sisters. For they appear more righteous than you, because your sins were more vile than theirs. So you too must bear your shame and disgrace, since you have made your sisters appear righteous.
1 Corinthians 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
Jeremiah 22:15Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
Jeremiah 22:16He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 22:17“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
Jeremiah 22:18Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’
Jeremiah 22:19He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
Job 29:13The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.
Psalms 72:4May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.
Psalms 82:2“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
Psalms 82:3Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
Psalms 82:4Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.
Isaiah 1:23Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
Zechariah 7:10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
Jeremiah 12:1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
Job 12:6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.