Deuteronomy 24:17 Cross References - MLV

¹⁷ You will not distort the justice due to the traveler, or to the fatherless, nor take the widow's garments to pledge,

²¹ And you will not wrong a traveler, neither will you oppress him, because you* were travelers in the land of Egypt.
²² You* will not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

²⁶ If you at all take your neighbor's garment to pledge, you will restore it to him before the sun goes down, ²⁷ because that is his only covering. It is his garment for his skin. How will he sleep? And it will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, because I am gracious.

² You will not follow a multitude to do evil, neither will you speak in a case to turn aside after a multitude to distort justice,

⁶ You will not distort the justice due to your poor in his case.

⁹ And you will not oppress a traveler, for you* know the heart of a traveler, because you* were travelers in the land of Egypt.

¹⁷ You* will not respect persons in judgment. You* will hear the small and the great alike. You* will not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you* you* will bring to me and I will hear it.

¹⁷ For Jehovah your* God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty and the awesome, who regards not persons, nor takes reward.
¹⁸ He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the traveler in giving him food and garments.

¹⁹ You will not distort justice. You will not respect persons, neither will you take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

⁶ No man will take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes life to pledge.

¹³ You will surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. And it will be righteousness to you before Jehovah your God.

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

³ Here I am. Witness against me before Jehovah and before his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or of whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you*.
⁴ And they said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything of any man's hand.

⁸ But as for the mighty man, he had the land. And the honorable man, he dwelt in it. ⁹ You have sent widows away empty and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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 he whom I did not know. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

¹ God stands in the congregation of God. He judges among the gods. ² How long will you* judge unjustly and respect the persons of the wicked? Selah.
³ Judge the poor man and the orphan. Do justice to the afflicted and destitute man. ⁴ Rescue the poor and needy man. Deliver him from the hand of the wicked man.
⁵ They do not know, nor do they understand. They walk to and fro in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

³ Jehovah, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph? ⁴ They pour out words, they speak arrogantly. All the workers of wickedness boast of themselves.
⁵ They break in pieces your people, O Jehovah and afflict your heritage. ⁶ They kill the widow and the traveler and murder the fatherless.

²⁰ Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by statute? ²¹ They gather themselves together against the soul of a righteous man and condemn innocent blood.

²² Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate. ²³ Because Jehovah will plead their cause and despoil of life those who despoil them.

⁵ Lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the justice due to any who is afflicted.

⁸ If you see the oppression of a poor man and the violent robbery of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. Because a man higher than the high is observing and there are higher men than they.

²³ Your 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.

¹⁵ What do you* mean that you* crush my people and grind the face of the poor? says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

¹⁵ He who walks righteously and speaks in uprightness. He who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes away his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil.

²⁸ They have grown fat. They shine. Yes, 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.

³ Jehovah says thus: Execute you* justice and righteousness. And deliver he who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong. Do no violence to the traveler, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

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

²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have distressed the poor and needy man and have oppressed the traveler wrongfully.

⁷ You* who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth, ⁸ seek he who makes the Pleiades and Orion and turns the shadow of death into the morning and makes the day dark with night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth (Jehovah is his name), ⁹ who brings sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress.
¹⁰ They hate he who reproves in the gate and they abhor he who speaks uprightly. ¹¹ Inasmuch therefore as you* trample upon the poor and take exactions of wheat from him. You* have built houses of hewn stone, but you* will not dwell in them. You* have planted pleasant vineyards, but you* will not drink the wine of it.
¹² For I know how great are your* transgressions and how mighty are your* sins–you* who afflict the just man, who take a bribe and who turn aside the needy in the gate.

¹ Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. ² And they desire fields and seize them and houses and take them away. And they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

³ Their hands are upon what is evil to do it diligently. The ruler asks and the judge asks for a bribe. And the great man, he utters the evil desire of his soul. Thus they weave it together.

¹⁰ And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the traveler, nor the poor man. And let none of you* devise evil against his brother in your* heart.

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 traveler and do not fear me, says Jehovah of hosts.

¹⁴ But the active soldiers were also asking him, saying, And we, what shall we do?
And he said to them, Intimidate no one, nor cheat anyone, and be content with your rations.

⁶ But you have dishonored the poor. Are the rich not oppressing you? And are they themselves not dragging you into the courts?