TSK · Zechariah 7:10

“You must not wrong a resident foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.

Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.

He will defend the oppressed among the people; he will deliver the children of the poor and crush the oppressor.

Do not plot evil against your neighbor when he dwells by you unsuspectingly.

Do not exploit a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court,

Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning!

That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.

Jeremiah Petitions the Lord to Punish Those Who Attack Him Then some people said,“Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah! There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God’s word. Come on! Let’s bring charges against him and get rid of him! Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says.”

They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the resident foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the resident foreigner and denied them justice.

Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.

God Will Judge Judah’s Sinful Leaders I said,“Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You ought to know what is just,

Do not plan evil in your hearts against one another. Do not favor a false oath– these are all things that I hate,’ says the LORD.

“But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.