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

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General references

Psalm 94:6

Proverbs 31:9

Ezekiel 34:7

Bible References

Do no wrong

But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

Do no violence

who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.

If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'

you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;

He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy palace.

They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless.

Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,

Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.

They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

"I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the immigrant and in this way show they do not fear me," says the Lord who rules over all.

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Neither

But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

Stop oppressing foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop paying allegiance to other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.

Then the officials and all the people rendered their verdict to the priests and the prophets. They said, "This man should not be condemned to die. For he has spoken to us under the authority of the Lord our God."

You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the Lord was unwilling to forgive them.

They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent.

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.

Egypt will be desolate and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, because of the violence they did to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

General references

They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless.

Open your mouth, judge in righteousness, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

"'Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: