Deuteronomy 24:17 Cross References - Leeser

¹⁷ Thou shalt not pervert the cause of the stranger, or of the fatherless; and thou shalt not take in pledge the raiment of a widow;

^{21 (22:20)} And a stranger thou shalt not vex, and shalt not oppress him; for strangers ye were in the land of Egypt. ^{22 (22:21)} Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

^{26 (22:25)} If thou take at all thy neighbor’s raiment in pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him by the time the sun goeth down; ^{27 (22:26)} For it is his only covering, it is his raiment for his skin; wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

² Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause, to incline after many, to wrest judgment.

⁶ Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

⁹ And a stranger shalt thou not oppress; for ye know well the spirit of the stranger, seeing ye yourselves were strangers in the land of Egypt.

¹⁷ Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; the small as well as the great shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of any man; for the judgment belongeth to God: and the cause that is too hard for you shall ye bring unto me, and I will hear it.

¹⁷ For the Lord your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who hath no regard to persons, and taketh no bribe; ¹⁸ Who executeth justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.

¹⁹ Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, and thou shalt not take a bribe; for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

⁶ No man shall take to pledge the nether or the upper millstone; for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.

¹³ Thou shalt punctually deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may lie under his own cover, and bless thee; and unto thee shall it be as righteousness before the Lord thy God.

¹⁹ Cursed be he that perverteth the cause of the stranger, of the fatherless, and of the widow; and all the people shall say, Amen.

³ Behold, here am I; testify against me in the presence of the Lord, and in the presence of his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or from whose hand have I received any ransom so that I withdrew my eyes from him? and I will restore it you. ⁴ And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor hast thou oppressed us, and thou hast not taken from any man’s hand the least.

⁸ But as for the man of a strong arm, he obtained the land, and the highly honored could dwell therein. ⁹ Widows hast thou sent away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

¹¹ For the ear that heard me called me happy; and the eye that saw me bore witness for me; ¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, yea, that had none to help him. ¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and the heart of the widow I caused to sing for joy. ¹⁴ I took righteousness as my garment, and it clothed me: as a robe and a mitre was justice unto me. ¹⁵ Eyes was I to the blind; and feet to the lame was I. ¹⁶ A father was I to the needy; and the cause of him I knew not I used to investigate. ¹⁷ And I broke the cutting-teeth of the wrong-doer, and out of his teeth I cast down his prey.

¹ A psalm of Assaph. God standeth in the congregation of God, in the midst of judges doth he judge. ² How long will ye judge unjustly, and treat with favor the face of the wicked? Selah. ³ Judge uprightly the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and indigent. ⁴ Release the poor and needy: deliver them out of the power of the wicked. ⁵ They know not, nor will they understand; in darkness do they walk on: all the foundations of the earth are moved.

³ How long shall the wicked, O Lord—how long shall the wicked exult? ⁴ They sputter, they speak hard things: all the workers of wickedness boast themselves. ⁵ Thy people, O Lord! they crush, and thy heritage they afflict. ⁶ The widow and the stranger they slay, and the fatherless they murder.

²⁰ Can there be associated with thee the throne of destructive wickedness, which frameth mischief as a law? ²¹ They band themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and innocent blood do they condemn.

²² Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither crush the afflicted in the gate; ²³ For the Lord will plead their cause, and despoil the life of those that despoil them.

⁵ Lest either might drink, and forget what is written in the law, and pervert the cause of all the afflicted.

^{8 (5:7)} If thou see the oppression of the poor, and violence done to justice and righteousness in a province, do not feel astounded at the matter; for one that is high watcheth over the high; and over them, the highest Power.

²³ Thy princes are rebels, and companions of thieves; every one loveth brides, and runneth after rewards; to the fatherless they will not do justice, and the cause of the widow doth not come unto them.

¹⁵ What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind down the faces of the poor? saith the Lord the Eternal of hosts.

¹⁵ He that walketh in righteousness, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands against taking hold of bribes, that stoppeth his ears against hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes against looking on evil;

²⁸ They are grown fat, they are stout; yea, they surpass even the deeds of the wicked: they pronounce no just sentence, the sentence of the fatherless, that they might prosper; and the cause of the needy do they not judge.

³ Thus hath said the Lord, Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor; and the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow shall ye not oppress, and do them no violence, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

⁷ Father and mother they esteemed lightly within thee, toward the stranger they acted with extortion in the midst of thee, the fatherless and the widow they oppressed within thee.

²⁹ The people of the land are guilty of extortion, and practise robbery, and the poor and the needy they defraud: and they extort from the stranger with injustice.

⁷ Ye who change justice into wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth! ⁸ But he maketh the seven stars and Orion, and changeth into morning the shadow of death, and maketh the day dark into night; he it is that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out over the face of the earth: The Lord is his name; ⁹ That causeth wasting to prevail against the strong, so that wasting shall come against the fortress. ¹⁰ They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and him that speaketh uprightly they abhor. ¹¹ Therefore forasmuch as you tread down upon the poor, and ye take from him onerous contributions of corn: if ye have built houses of hewn stone, ye shall not dwell in them; if ye have planted pleasant vineyards, ye shall not drink their wine. ¹² For I know your manifold transgressions and your numerous sins: ye are those that are the adversaries of the just, that take a ransom, and that wrest the cause of the needy in the gate.

¹ Woe to those that devise wickedness, and resolve on evil upon their couches! by the first light of the morning they execute it, if they have it in the power of their hand. ² And they covet fields, and rob them; and houses, and take them away: so they defraud the master and his house, and the man and his heritage.

³ For the evil of your hands you expect good? while the prince demandeth bribes, and the judge acteth for pay; and the great man is only speaking the wilful pleasure of his soul: and so do they make a network of wrong.

¹⁰ And defraud not the widow, or the fatherless, the stranger, or the poor; and imagine not evil in your heart one against the other.

⁵ And I will come near unto you to hold judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against those that swear falsely, and against those that withhold the wages of the hired laborer, oppress the widow, and the fatherless, and that do injustice to the stranger, and fear me not, saith the Lord of hosts.