Leviticus 25:14

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Leviticus 25:14

And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:

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And you shall not oppress one another. But you shall fear your God. For I am Jehovah your God.

You shall not defraud your neighbor nor rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not stay with you until the morning.

You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not respect persons, nor take a gift. For a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

And the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron. And he mightily oppressed the sons of Israel twenty years.

Behold, here I am. Witness against me before Jehovah and before His anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I received a bribe, to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you.

And Asa was angry with the seer and put him in a prison-house. For he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time.

Behold, we are servants today. And the land that You gave to our fathers to eat its fruit, and its good, behold, we are servants in it.

For he pressed down and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it.

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, so that the man of the earth may no more terrify.

He who presses the poor curses his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy upon the poor.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

He who crushes the poor to multiply for himself, and he who gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.

A poor man who crushes the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter. For He who is higher than the highest watches; and there are some higher than they.

learn to do good; seek judgment, reprove the oppressor. Judge the orphan, plead for the widow.

As for my people, children are their taskmasters, and women rule over them. Oh my people, your rulers cause you to go astray and destroy the way of your paths.

For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant; and He looked for justice, but behold bloody iniquity; for righteousness, but behold a cry!

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands free from holding bribes, who stops his ear from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed ones go free, and that you break every yoke?

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and for cruelty, and to do violence.

In you they have despised father and mother. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they oppressed the orphan and the widow.

So, because of your trampling on the poor, and you take tribute of grain from him; you have built houses of carved stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.

Hear this, you who trample the poor, even to make the humble of the land to fail,

And they covet and seize fields; and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.

Are the treasures of wickedness still in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is hateful?

Both hands are on evil, to do it well. The ruler asks for a bribe, and the judge also; and the great man speaks the evil desire of his soul. So they weave it together.

And the soldiers also asked of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said to them, Do not forcibly extort anyone, nor accuse any falsely. And be content with your wages.

But you do wrong and defraud, and these things to brothers.

Come now, rich ones, weep and howl for your hardships coming on.