Jeremiah 22:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Do no wrong

Jeremiah 22:17

Do no violence

Neither

General references

Psalm 94:6

Proverbs 31:9

Ezekiel 34:7

Bible References

Do no wrong

But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Do no violence

He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the sojourner, in giving him food and raiment.

If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

Cursed be he that wresteth the justice due to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;

Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.

Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

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 that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right , and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Neither

But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he hath spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God.

that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Jehovah would not pardon.

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

General references

They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, And minister justice to the poor and needy.

Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah: