Deuteronomy 24:17 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁷ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, or the orphan, or the widow. Thou shalt not take the garment of a widow in pledge,

²¹ A stranger you shall not injure; nor shall you afflict him; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. ²² A widow and an orphan you shall not afflict.

²⁶ And if thou hast taken the mantle of thy neighbour as a pledge, thou shalt restore it to him before the setting of the sun; ²⁷ for it is his covering. This mantle is the only covering of his nakedness. In what can he sleep? If therefore he cry to me, I will hear him; for I am merciful.

² Thou shalt not be with the majority in wickedness, nor join with the multitude to shut out justice.

⁶ Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of a poor man in the trial of his cause.

⁹ You shall not afflict a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

¹⁷ Thou shalt not respect a person in judgment. Against the low and the high thou shalt pass sentence, and not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's. And if the matter be too hard for you, bring it to me, and I will hear it.

¹⁷ For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords; the God, great, and mighty, and awful. He respecteth not persons, nor taketh a bribe. ¹⁸ He administereth justice to the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

¹⁹ They shall not wrest judgment, nor respect persons, nor shall they receive a gift. For gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

⁶ Thou shalt not take in pledge an upper, nor a lower milstone, for this is taking a man's life in pledge.

¹³ Thou shalt surely restore him his pledge at the going down of the sun, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee, and there shall be mercy for thee in the sight of the Lord thy God.

¹⁹ Cursed he who perverteth the judgment of the stranger, or the orphan, or the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

³ Here I am. Bring your complaints against me before the Lord, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom among you have I oppressed? or whom have I aggrieved? or from whose hand have I taken a bribe, even to a shoe latchet? Witness against me, and I will make you restitution. ⁴ Thereupon they said to Samuel, Thou hast not injured us; nor tyrannised over us; nor afflicted us; nor taken any thing from the hand of any man.

⁸ Thou hast respected the persons of some and settled them in the land; ⁹ but hast sent widows away empty, and done injustice to orphans.

¹¹ When the ear heard me it blessed me; and the eye when it saw me, turned aside: ¹² for I saved the poor from the hand of the mighty; and assisted the orphan who had no helper. ¹³ The blessing of him who was perishing came upon me: and the mouth of the widow blessed me. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness and cloathed myself with justice as with a mantle. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to those in distress; and the cause which I knew not I searched out. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous; and plucked the prey from betwixt their teeth.

¹ A Psalm by Asaph. GOD standeth in the assembly of gods and in the midst he judgeth gods. ² [J] How long will you judge unjustly; and respect the persons of sinners? [[J] Jehovah [p] the prophet or psalmist.] ³ Do justice to the fatherless and the afflicted; Justify the lowly and the needy. ⁴ Rescue the needy and deliver the afflicted out of the sinner's hand. ⁵ They did not know; nor did they understand. They walked on in darkness. All the foundations of the land shall be shaken.

³ How long shall sinners, O Lord; how long shall sinners boast? ⁴ Shall they declaim and utter injustice? Shall all the workers of iniquity speak? ⁵ They have oppressed thy people, O Lord: and afflicted thine inheritance. ⁶ They have slain the widow and orphan: they have murdered the stranger,

²⁰ Shall a throne of iniquity; shall he who frameth mischief for law, have fellowship with thee? ²¹ Shall they hunt for the soul of the righteous? And shall they condemn innocent blood?

²² Oppress not the needy because he is poor: nor treat with disrespect at the gates one who is weak. ²³ For the Lord will judge his cause; and thou shouldst preserve thy life safe and secure.

⁵ lest by drinking they forget wisdom, and become incapable of administering justice to the oppressed.

⁸ If thou seest a frivolous accusation of a poor man, and a rigorous exaction of judgment and justice in a country, marvel not at the matter. Because there is a high one over a high one to watch, and high ones are for these things,

²³ The chiefs are rebellious; associates of thieves: they love gifts; they seek rewards: to orphans they do not administer justice; and to the cause of widows they do not attend.

¹⁵ Why do you injure my people; and cover with shame the face of the poor.

¹⁵ He who is walking in righteousness, speaking of a straight way; who hateth iniquity and injustice; who shaketh his hands from bribes; who stoppeth his ears that he may not hear a bloody sentence; who shutteth his eyes against the appearance of injustice:

²⁸ and overleaped judgment; they did not administer justice to the orphan, nor decide righteously the cause of the widow;

³ Thus saith the Lord, Execute judgment and justice and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of him who wrongeth him; and over the stranger and the orphan and the widow tyrannise not; nor be guilty of impiety; nor shed innocent blood in this place.

⁷ In thee they reviled father and mother; and in thee practised injustice against the stranger. They oppressed the widow and the orphan;

²⁹ crushing by usurped authority the people of the land, and ravening prey, oppressing the poor and needy, and paying no regard to strangers to the administration of justice.

⁷ He is the exalter of judgment and hath established righteousness for the earth. ⁸ He is the maker and former of all things. He turned darkness into day, and darkeneth the day into night. He calleth to him the water of the sea, and poureth it out on the face of the earth. His name is the Lord. ⁹ He setteth destruction against strength and bringeth misery on bulwarks. ¹⁰ [J] They hated a reprover in the gates and held in abhorrence a holy word; ¹¹ therefore because they have beaten the poor with their fists, though you had received from them choice gifts; you have built houses of hewn stone; but in them you shall not dwell; you have planted lovely vineyards, but you shall not drink the wine thereof. ¹² [p] Because I know your manifold impieties and your sins are mighty: you trample down the righteous, take pledges and turn aside the poor in the gates;

¹ They planned mischief; they contrived evils on their beds, and soon as it was day they executed them; for they did not lift up their hands to God. ² They coveted fields and plundered orphans and tyrannised over houses; they plundered a man and his household; a man and his inheritance;

³ they are preparing their hands for evil. The chief asketh and the judge hath spoken words of peace! He is entirely at his devotion;

¹⁰ and oppress not the widow, nor the orphan, nor the stranger, nor the poor; and let none treasure up in his heart for evil an injury done by his brother;

⁵ And I will bring to judgment before you and be a swift witness against sorcerers, and against adulteresses, and against them who swear by my name to a falsehood, and against them who deprive the hireling of his wages, and them who oppress the widow, and them who buffet the fatherless, and them who turn aside the cause of the stranger, and them who do not fear me, saith the Lord Almighty.

¹⁴ And when soldiers asked him, saying, And what shall we do? He said to them, Injure no man, either by violence or false accusation, and be content with your wages.

⁶ But you have treated the poor with disdain. Do not the rich domineer over you? Do they not drag you to tribunals?