Jeremiah 22:3 Cross References - ACV

³ Thus says LORD: Execute ye justice and righteousness. And deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong. Do no violence to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

²² Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

⁶ Thou shall not distort the justice due to thy poor in his case. ⁷ Keep thee far from a false matter. And do not kill an innocent and righteous man, for I will not justify a wicked man. ⁸ And thou shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight, and perverts the words of the righteous. ⁹ And thou shall not oppress a sojourner, for ye know the heart of a sojourner, since ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

¹⁵ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. Thou shall not respect the person of the poor man, nor honor the person of the mighty man, but thou shall judge thy neighbor in righteousness.

¹⁸ He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner in giving him food and raiment.

¹⁸ Thou shall make judges and officers for thee in all thy gates, which LORD thy God gives thee, according to thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. ¹⁹ Thou shall not distort justice. Thou shall not respect persons, neither shall thou take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous. ²⁰ Thou shall follow that which is altogether just, that thou may live, and inherit the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

¹⁰ that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of thy land, which LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee. ¹¹ But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and smites him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities, ¹² then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. ¹³ Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

⁷ If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the sons of Israel, and he deals with him harshly, or sells him, then that thief shall die. So shall thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

¹ If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and they judge them, then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the iniquitous.

¹⁹ Cursed be he who distorts the justice to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Truly.

³ The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me. He who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

⁴ and also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and LORD would not pardon.

⁹ Thou have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

⁹ There are men who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

⁷ when I went forth to the gate to the city, when I prepared my seat in the street. ⁸ The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood. ⁹ The rulers refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. ¹⁰ The voice of the ranking men was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. ¹¹ For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me. ¹² Because I delivered the poor who cried, also the fatherless who had none to help him. ¹³ The blessing of him who was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and I was feet to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of him whom I did not know. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

⁵ A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

² He will judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with justice. ³ The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the hills, in righteousness. ⁴ He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the sons of the needy, and will break in pieces the oppressor.

⁶ They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless.

²¹ They gather themselves together against the soul of a righteous man, and condemn innocent blood.

¹⁷ haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

¹⁰ Remove not the ancient landmark. And enter not into the fields of the fatherless,

¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. ¹⁷ Learn to do good. Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. ¹⁸ Come now, and let us reason together, says LORD, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. ¹⁹ If ye are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. ²⁰ But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword, for the mouth of LORD has spoken it.

²³ Thy rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They judge not the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

²⁸ They have grown fat. They shine. Yea, they overflow in deeds of wickedness. They do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper. And they do not judge the right of the needy.

⁵ For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor, ⁶ if ye do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own hurt,

²⁴ but let him who boasts boast in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth. For in these things I delight, says LORD.

¹² O house of David, thus says LORD: Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

¹⁷ But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

¹⁶ Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets. This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of LORD our God.

⁷ In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

¹⁹ Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the sons of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

¹¹ The heads of it judge for a bribe, and the priests of it teach for a wage, and the prophets of it divine for money. Yet they lean upon LORD, and say, Is not LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.

⁸ He has shown thee, O man, what is good. And what does LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

⁹ Thus LORD of hosts has spoken, saying, Execute true justice, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. ¹⁰ And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor man. And let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart. ¹¹ But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

⁵ And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says LORD of hosts.

²⁷ Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.