EXTORTION, General scriptures concerning

Psalms 109:11

11. Let the EXTORTIONer catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

Isaiah 16:4

4. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the EXTORTIONer is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

Ezekiel 22:12

12. In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by EXTORTION, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

Micah 3:2-3

2. Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

3. Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

Matthew 23:25

25. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of EXTORTION and excess.