{"id":820,"date":"2007-05-01T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2007\/05\/verse-of-day-unjust-authorities.html"},"modified":"2007-05-01T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T08:50:00","slug":"verse-of-day-unjust-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/05\/verse-of-day-unjust-authorities.html","title":{"rendered":"Verse of the Day: Unjust Authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be your spoil, and that you may make the orphans your prey! What will you do on the day of punishment, in the calamity that will come from far away? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth, so as not to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain? 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