Riches: Denunciations Against Those Who: Increase, by Oppression

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  1. Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
  2. Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’ …
  3. They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
  4. Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.