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Skidmore

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Mon Jun 3, 2013, 07:58 AM Jun 2013

Someone pointed this out to me. An admonition in the Bible for lawmakers. [View all]

Sometimes you need to fight fire with fire and the Stephen Finchers in Congress who are insisting on laws based on biblical text need to hear some that they may not like.

Isaiah 10
10 Woe to those who make unjust laws,
to those who issue oppressive decrees,
2 to deprive the poor of their rights
and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,
making widows their prey
and robbing the fatherless.
3 What will you do on the day of reckoning,
when disaster comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?
Where will you leave your riches?
4 Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives
or fall among the slain.
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
his hand is still upraised.

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du rec. xchrom Jun 2013 #1
Well I never! You are certainly taking that out of context! Pholus Jun 2013 #2
That' the Bible for ya n2doc Jun 2013 #3
It suffered more from too many editors. Skidmore Jun 2013 #4
Malachi 3:5 PD Turk Jun 2013 #5
More ammunition. Skidmore Jun 2013 #6
yep PD Turk Jun 2013 #7
Do Justice Micah 6:8 duhneece Jun 2013 #8
Ezekiel 25:17 bvar22 Jun 2013 #9
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