Deuteronomy 24:17 Cross References - DouayRheims

¹⁷ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless, neither shalt thou take away the widow's raiment for a pledge.

²¹ Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for yourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt. ²² You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan.

²⁶ If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset. ²⁷ For that same is the only thing, wherewith he is covered, the clothing of his body, neither hath he any other to sleep in: if he cry to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.

² Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou yield in judgment, to the opinion of the most part, to stray from the truth.

⁶ Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment.

⁹ Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of strangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

¹⁷ There shall be no difference of persons, you shall hear the little as well as the great: neither shall you respect any man's person, because it is the judgment of God. And if any thing seem hard to you, refer it to me, and I will hear it.

¹⁷ Because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a great God and mighty and terrible, who accepteth no person nor taketh bribes. ¹⁸ He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.

¹⁹ And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just.

⁶ Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee.

¹³ But thou shalt restore it to him presently before the going down of the sun: that he may sleep in his own raiment and bless thee, and thou mayst have justice before the Lord thy God.

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

³ Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you. ⁴ And they said: Thou hast not wronged us, nor oppressed us, nor taken ought at any man's hand.

⁸ In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it. ⁹ Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.

¹¹ The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me: ¹² Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper. ¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow. ¹⁴ I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem. ¹⁵ I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame. ¹⁶ I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently. ¹⁷ I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.

¹ A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods. ² How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked? ³ Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor. ⁴ Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the sinner. ⁵ They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

³ How long shall sinners, O Lord: how long shall sinners glory? ⁴ Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work injustice? ⁵ Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: and they have afflicted thy inheritance. ⁶ They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have murdered the fatherless.

²⁰ Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment? ²¹ They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn innocent blood.

²² Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate: ²³ Because the Lord will judge his cause: and will afflict them that have afflicted his soul.

⁵ And lest they drink and forget judgments, and pervert the cause of the children of the poor.

^{8 (5:7)} If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:

²³ Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them.

¹⁵ Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord the God of hosts.

¹⁵ He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil.

²⁸ They are grown gross and fat: and have most wickedly transgressed my words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have not managed the cause of the fatherless, and they have not judged the judgment of the poor.

³ Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgment and justice, and deliver him that is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor: and afflict not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, nor oppress them unjustly: and shed not innocent blood in this place.

⁷ They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.

²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery: they afflicted the needy and poor, and they oppressed the stranger by calumny without judgment.

⁷ You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land, ⁸ Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name. ⁹ He that with a smile bringeth destruction upon the strong, and waste upon the mighty. ¹⁰ They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly. ¹¹ Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them. ¹² Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sins: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.

¹ Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God. ² And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

³ The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.

¹⁰ And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger, and the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against his brother.

⁵ And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

¹⁴ And the soldiers also asked him, saying: And what shall we do? And he said to them: Do violence to no man, neither calumniate any man; and be content with your pay.

⁶ But you have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you by might? And do not they draw you before the judgment seats?