Ecclesiastes 4:1 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ So I returned, and saw all the oppressions that were done under the sun: and behold the tear of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of them that oppressed them was power; but they had no comforter:

¹³ And the Egyptians tyrannized over the children of Israel by force. ¹⁴ And they embittered their life by hard labors, in the clay and in brick-making, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.

¹⁶ And he said, When you⌃ do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and they are about to be delivered, if it be a male, kill it; but if a female, save it.

²² And Pharao charged all his people, saying, Whatever male [child] shall be born to the Hebrews, cast into the river; and every female, save it alive.

²³ And in those days after a length of time, the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel groaned because of their tasks, and cried, and their cry because of their tasks went up to God. ²⁴ And God heard their groanings, and God remembered his covenant made with Abraam and Isaac and Jacob.

¹⁶ Straw is not given to your servants, and they tell us to make brick; and behold your servants have been scourged: you will therefore injure your people. ¹⁷ And he said to them, You⌃ are idle, you⌃ are idlers: therefore you⌃ say, Let us go [and] do sacrifice to our God. ¹⁸ Now then go and work, for straw shall not be given to you, yet you⌃ shall return the rate of bricks. ¹⁹ And the accountants of the children of Israel saw themselves in an evil plight, [men] saying, You⌃ shall not fail to deliver the daily rate of the brick-making.

³³ A nation which you know not shall eat the produce of your land, and all your labors; and you shall be injured and crushed always.

⁴⁸ And you shall serve your enemies, which the Lord will send forth against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and you shall wear upon your neck a yoke of iron until he shall have destroyed you.

³ And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, because he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed Israel twenty years.

⁷ And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and sold them into the hands of the Phylistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon. ⁸ And they afflicted and bruised the children of Israel at that time eighteen years, all the children of Israel beyond Jordan in the land of the Amorite in Galaad.

¹ And the cry of the people and their wives [was] great against their brethren the Jews. ² And some said, We [are] numerous with our sons and our daughters; so we will take corn, and eat, and live. ³ And some said, [As to] our fields and vineyards and houses, let us pledge [them], and we will take corn, and eat. ⁴ And some said, We have borrowed money for the king's tributes:—our fields, and our vineyards, and houses [are pledged]. ⁵ And now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brethren, our children [are] as their children: yet, behold, we are reducing our sons and our daughters to slavery, and some of our daughters are enslaved: and there is no power of our hands, for our fields and our vineyards [belong] to the nobles.

²⁹ Sit down now, and let there not be unrighteousness; and unite again with the just.

⁴ I also will speak as you⌃ [do]: if indeed your soul were in my [soul's] stead,

²¹ Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me. ²² Therefore do you⌃ persecute me as also the Lord [does], and are not satisfied with my flesh?

⁷ They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, and they have taken away the covering of their body. ⁸ They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter. ⁹ They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast. ¹⁰ And they have wrongfully caused [others] to sleep without clothing, and taken away the morsel of the hungry. ¹¹ They have unrighteously laid wait in narrow places, and have not known the righteous way. ¹² Who have cast forth [the] poor from the city and their own houses, and the soul of the children has groaned aloud.

⁹ They that are oppressed of a multitude will be ready to cry out; they will call for help because of the arm of many.

⁵ But I have hoped in your mercy; my heart shall exult in your salvation.

³ Send forth your light and your truth: they have led me, and brought me to your holy mountain, and to your tabernacles.

⁵ He made it [to be] a testimony in Joseph, when he came forth out of the land of Egypt: he heard a language which he understood not.

⁸ The Lord is compassionate and pitiful, longsuffering, and full of mercy. ⁹ He will not be always angry; neither will he be wrathful for ever.

⁴ Therefore my spirit was grieved in me; my heart was troubled within me.

⁷ Every one who hates [his] poor brother shall also be far from friendship. Good understanding will draw near to them that know it, and a sensible man will find it. He that does much harm perfects mischief; and he that used provoking words shall not escape.

³ A bold man oppresses the poor by ungodly deeds. As an impetuous and profitable rain,

¹⁵ A hungry lion and a thirsty wolf [is he], who, being poor, rules over a poor nation. ¹⁶ A king in need of revenues is a great oppressor: but he that hates injustice shall live a long time.

¹⁶ And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, there was the ungodly one; and the place of righteousness, there was the godly one.

⁸ Also the abundance of the earth is for every one: the king [is dependent on] the tilled field.

⁷ As the sound of thorns under a caldron, so is the laughter of fools: this is also vanity.

⁷ For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Juda [his] beloved plant: I expected [it] to bring forth judgment, and it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry.

²³ And I will give it into the hands of them that injured you, and them that afflicted you; who said to your soul, Bow down, that we may pass over: and you did level your body with the ground to them passing by without.

⁷ And their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;

¹³ We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God: we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words. ¹⁴ And we have turned judgment back, and righteousness has departed afar off: for truth is consumed in their ways, and they could not pass by a straight [path]. ¹⁵ And truth has been taken away, and they have turned aside [their] mind from understanding. And the Lord saw it, and it pleased him not that there was no judgment.

² BETH. She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; and there is none of all her lovers to comfort her: all that were her friends have dealt deceitfully with her, they are become her enemies.

⁹ TETH. Her uncleanness is before her feet; she remembered not her last end; she has lowered her boasting [tone], there is none to comfort her. Behold, O Lord, my affliction: for the enemy has magnified himself.

¹³ And these things which I hated, you⌃ did: you⌃ covered with tears the altar of the Lord, and with weeping and groaning because of troubles: [is it] meet [for me] to have respect to your sacrifice, or to receive [anything] from your hands [as] welcome?

⁵ And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a sift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by my name, and against them that keep back the hireling's wages, and them that oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and fear not me, says the Lord Almighty.

¹⁸ Then shall you⌃ return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, and between him that serves God, and him that serves [him] not.