Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

And the widow and the orphan, the stranger and the poor, ye shall not oppress; and ye shall not purpose evil in your heart a man to his brother.

New American Standard Bible

and do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the stranger or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.’

King James Version

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

Holman Bible

Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor, and do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.

International Standard Version

You are not to wrong the widow, orphans, the foreigner, or the poor, and you are not to plan evil against each other.

A Conservative Version

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.

American Standard Version

and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.

Amplified

and do not oppress or exploit the widow or the fatherless, the stranger or the poor; and do not devise or even imagine evil in your hearts against one another.’

Bible in Basic English

Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

Darby Translation

and oppress not the widow and the fatherless, the stranger and the afflicted; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

King James 2000

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You must not oppress [the] widow, [the] orphan, [the] foreigner, and [the] needy. You must not devise evil in your heart {against one another}.'

Modern King James verseion

And do not crush the widow or the orphan, the alien or the poor. And do not devise evil in your heart, of a man against his brother.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Do the widow, the fatherless, the stranger, and poor no wrong: and let no man imagine evil against his brother in his heart."

NET Bible

You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow human being.'

New Heart English Bible

Do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

The Emphasized Bible

And, the widow and the fatherless, the sojourner and the humbled, do not ye oppress, - and, wickedness between one man and another, do not ye devise in your hearts.

Webster

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

World English Bible

Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

Youngs Literal Translation

And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
not the widow
אלמנה 
'almanah 
Usage: 54

יתום 
Yathowm 
Usage: 42

the stranger
גּיר גּר 
Ger 
Usage: 92

nor the poor
עני 
`aniy 
Usage: 75

אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Disobedience And Fasting

9 Thus said Jehovah of armies, saying. Judge ye the judgment of truth, and do mercy and compassions each to his brother. 10 And the widow and the orphan, the stranger and the poor, ye shall not oppress; and ye shall not purpose evil in your heart a man to his brother. 11 And they will refuse to attend, and they will give a stubborn shoulder, and their ears they made heavy from hearing.



Cross References

Psalm 21:11

For they stretched out evil upon thee: they purposed a device, they will not prevail.

Psalm 72:4

He shall judge the poor of the people, and save to the sons of the needy, and he will break in pieces him oppressing.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.

Jeremiah 5:28

They became fat, they shone: they passed over words of evil: they judged not judgment, the judgment of the orphan, and they will give success; and the judgment of the needy they judged not.

Exodus 22:21-24

Thou shalt not treat evil the stranger, and thou shalt not press him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:9

Thou shalt not press the stranger: and ye knew the soul of the stranger, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt

Deuteronomy 24:14-18

Thou shalt not oppress the poor and needy hireling from thy brethren, or from thy stranger which is in thy land in thy gates.

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursing he turning away the judgment of the stranger, the orphan and the widow: and all the people said, Amen.

Psalm 36:4

He will purpose vanity upon his bed; he will set himself upon a way not good; he will not reject evil

Psalm 140:2

Who reckoned evils in the heart; all the day they will gather together wars.

Proverbs 3:29

Thou shalt not fabricate evil upon thy neighbor, and he dwelling confidently with thee.

Proverbs 6:18

A heart fabricating purposes of iniquity; feet being quick to run to evil,

Proverbs 22:22-23

Thou shalt not strip the poor because he is poor: and thou shalt not crush the humble in the gate.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Thou shalt not remove the old bound; and into the field of the orphans thou shalt not come:

Isaiah 1:16-17

Wash ye, cleanse yourselves: turn away evil from your doings from before mine eyes; leave off the evil;

Jeremiah 11:19-20

And I as a gentle lamb being brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that against me they purposed purposes: We will destroy the tree with its food, and we will cut him off from the land of the living, and his name shall no more be remembered.

Jeremiah 18:18

And they will say, Come, and we will purpose purposes against Jeremiah; for law shall not perish from the priest, and counsel from the wise, and the word from the prophet Come, and we will strike him with the tongue, and we will not attend to any of his words.

Jeremiah 22:15-17

Shalt thou reign, for thou art kindled with cedar? did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and justice, then it was well to him?

Ezekiel 22:7

They made light of father and mother in thee: they did with violence to the stranger in the midst of thee: they oppresed the orphan and the widow in thee.

Ezekiel 22:12

They took a gift in thee to pour out blood; thou tookest usury and interest, and thou wilt plunder thy neighbors by violence, and thou didst forget me, says the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land oppressed with violence and stripped off robbery, and oppressed the poor and needy, and did violence to the stranger without judgment

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, ye heifers of Bashan, which are upon the mountain of Shomeron, oppressing the poor, breaking in pieces the needy, saying to their lords, Bring, and we will drink.

Amos 5:11-12

For this, because of your treading upon the poor one, and ye will take away the liftings up of wheat from him: ye built houses of hewn stone, and ye shall not dwell in them; ye planted vineyards of desire and ye shall not drink their wine.

Micah 2:1-3

Wo to them purposing vanity, and working evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning they will do it because it is to the strength of their hand.

Micah 3:1-4

And saying, Hear now, ye heads of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?

Zephaniah 3:1-3

Wo! to the wonderful and oppressing city being redeemed.

Zechariah 8:17

And ye shall not purpose evil, a man to his neighbor, in your heart; and ye shall not love the oath of falsehood: for all these which I hated, says Jehovah.

Malachi 3:5

And I came near to you for judgment: and I was a swift witness against those practicing magic, and against those committing adultery, and against those swearing to falsehood, and against those oppressing the hire of the hireling, the widow and the orphan, and those turning aside the stranger, and they feared not me, said Jehovah of armies.

Matthew 23:13

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye lock up the kingdom of the heavens before men: for ye come not in yourselves, neither those coming in, permit ye to come in.

Mark 7:21-23

For within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil reflections, adulteries, fornications, murders,

1 Corinthians 6:10

Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

James 1:14-15

And each is tempted from his own lust, being drawn out, and decoyed.

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

1 John 3:15

Every one hating his brother is a manslayer: and ye know that no man-slayer has eternal life remaining in him.

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