Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Turn aside
General references
Bible References
Turn aside
Isaiah 29:21
such as labour to draw men unto sin; and that deceive him which reproveth them in the gate; and such as turn good persons to vanity.
Lamentations 3:35
To move the judgment of man before the most highest.
Amos 2:7
They tread upon poor men's heads, in the dust of the earth, and crook the ways of the meek. The son and the father go to the harlot, to dishonour my holy name,
Amos 5:11
Forsomuch then as ye oppress the poor, and rob him of his best sustenance: therefore, where as ye have builded houses of square stone, ye shall not dwell in them. Marvelous pleasant vineyards shall ye plant; but the wine of them shall ye not drink. And why?
Malachi 3:5
I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.
That widows
Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and gape for rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them.
Isaiah 3:14
The LORD shall come forth to reason with the senators and princes of his people, and shall say thus unto them, "It is ye that have burnt up my vineyard; the robbery of the poor is in your house.
Isaiah 5:7
As for the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts, it is the house of Israel, and whole Judah his fair planting. Of these he looked for equity, but see there is wrong; for righteousness, lo, it is but misery.
Jeremiah 7:6
If ye will not oppress the stranger, the fatherless and the widow; if ye will not shed innocent blood in this place; if ye will not cleave to strange gods to your own destruction;
Ezekiel 22:7
In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless.
Matthew 23:14
Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, for ye devour widows' houses: and that, under a colour of praying long prayers, wherefore ye shall receive greater damnation.
General references
Exodus 22:22
Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child:
Exodus 23:6
Thou shalt not hinder the right of the poor that are among you in their suit.
Psalm 94:6
They murder the widow and the stranger, and put the fatherless to death.
Isaiah 59:14
And therefore is equity gone aside, and righteousness standeth far off; truth is fallen down in the street, and the thing that is plain and open, may not be showed.