• Jeremiah 5:26-28
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 26 For among my people there are wicked men.

      They keep peering, as when birdcatchers crouch down.

      They set a deadly trap.

      It is men whom they catch.

      27 Like a cage full of birds,

      So their houses are full of deception.+

      That is why they have become powerful and rich.

      28 They have grown fat and smooth;

      They overflow with evil.

      They do not plead the legal case of the fatherless,+

      That they may gain success;

      And they deny justice to the poor.’”+

  • Micah 2:1, 2
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 2 “Woe to those who scheme what is harmful,

      Who work out evil on their beds!

      When morning light comes they carry it out,

      Because it is in the power of their hand.+

       2 They desire fields and seize them;+

      Also houses, and they take them;

      They defraud a man of his house,+

      A man of his inheritance.