Exodus 22:23
If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
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Exodus 22:23
If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
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Exodus 22:21
“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 22:22
“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
Exodus 22:23
If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
Exodus 22:24
and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Deuteronomy 27:19
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 10:18
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 24:17
You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
Exodus 23:9
“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Luke 18:3
A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’
Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 29:12
because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;
Leviticus 19:33
“ ‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
Job 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
Jeremiah 7:6
if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt,
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James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
Job 34:28
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
Deuteronomy 24:15
In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it, for he is poor and sets his heart on it, lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
Deuteronomy 15:9
Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
Genesis 4:10
Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
Job 31:38
If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;
Job 31:39
if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
Job 35:9
“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Proverbs 21:13
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
Luke 18:7
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
Psalms 9:12
For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
Psalms 18:6
In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
Psalms 145:19
He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
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James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Malachi 3:5
I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
Psalms 146:9
Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
Isaiah 10:2
to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Ezekiel 22:7
In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Mark 12:40
those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”
Psalms 82:3
“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
Jeremiah 49:11
Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”
Matthew 23:14
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
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Proverbs 23:10
Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Proverbs 23:11
for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
Proverbs 22:22
Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;
Proverbs 22:23
for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
Psalms 10:14
But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
Psalms 10:18
to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
Psalms 140:12
I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
Jeremiah 22:13
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;
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Exodus 22:25
“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.
Exodus 22:26
If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
Exodus 22:27
for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
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Exodus 3:7
Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
Exodus 3:8
I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Exodus 3:9
Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
Exodus 2:23
In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
Exodus 2:24
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
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Deuteronomy 14:29
The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
Deuteronomy 24:19
When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 24:20
When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:21
When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 26:12
When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.
Deuteronomy 26:13
You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
Deuteronomy 16:11
You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
Deuteronomy 16:14
You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.
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Exodus 22:28
“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
Exodus 22:31
“You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any meat that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.
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Job 31:16
“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Job 31:17
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
Job 31:18
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);
Job 31:19
if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
Job 31:20
if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
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