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 your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

Do no violence

Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.

If a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the children of Israel, using him as his property or getting a price for him, that thief is to be put to death: so you are to put away evil from among you.

Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.

You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.

A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;

Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.

Neither

But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:

Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, It is not right for this man to be put to death: for he has said words to us in the name of the Lord our God.

So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.

They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;

And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

Egypt will be a waste and Edom a land of destruction, because of the evil done to the children of Judah, because they have let blood be drained out in their land without cause.

General references

They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.

For this cause, O keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord: