MIN Market Invading Neighbor

Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

because he didn't remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.

Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

Listen 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!"

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"

When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,

and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."

When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.