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

Nevertheless, as for thine eyes and thine heart, they look upon covetousness, to shed innocent blood, and to do wrong and violence.'"

Do no violence

but doeth right unto the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.

If any man be found stealing any of his brethren the children of Israel, and maketh chevisance of him or selleth him, the thief shall die. And thou shalt put evil away from thee.

"'Cursed be he that hindereth the right of the stranger, fatherless and widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Thou hast sent widows away empty and oppressed the poor fatherless.

They spoil the sucking fatherless children, and put the poor in prison,

"For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help.

He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation.

They murder the widow and the stranger, and put the fatherless to death.

Remove not the old landmark, and come not within the field of the fatherless.

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.

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.

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.

Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.

Neither

Nevertheless, as for thine eyes and thine heart, they look upon covetousness, to shed innocent blood, and to do wrong and violence.'"

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;

Then said the rulers and the people unto the priests and prophets, "This man may not be condemned to death, for he hath preached unto us in the name of the LORD our God."

that innocent blood be not shed in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, and so blood come upon thee.

and for the innocent blood that he shed and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not forgive.

They gather them together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

When ye hold out your hands, I will turn my eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet will I hear nothing at all; for your hands are full of blood.

Egypt shall go to ruin, and Edom shall be a desert and a wilderness, which oppressed the children of Israel, and which shed innocent blood in their land.

General references

They murder the widow and the stranger, and put the fatherless to death.

With thy mouth defend the thing that is lawful and right, and the cause of the poor and helpless.

"'Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD.