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, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.

Do no violence

He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment.

'When a man is found stealing a person, of his brethren, of the sons of Israel, and hath tyrannized over him, and sold him, then hath that thief died, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

Cursed is he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.

For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.

Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, Is God in His holy habitation.

Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.

Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,

Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.

Neither

But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.

Sojourner, fatherless, and widow, ye oppress not, And innocent blood do not shed in this place, And after other gods do not walk, for evil to yourselves,

And the heads and all the people say unto the priests and unto the prophets, 'There is not for this man a judgment of death, for in the name of Jehovah our God he hath spoken unto us.'

and innocent blood is not shed in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance, and there hath been upon thee blood.

and also the innocent blood that he hath shed, and he filleth Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah was not willing to forgive.

They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.

Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --

And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.

Egypt a desolation becometh, And Edom a desolation, a wilderness, becometh, For violence to sons of Judah, Whose innocent blood they shed in their land.

General references

Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'

Therefore, shepherds, hear a word of Jehovah: