Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Afflictions » The afflicted
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry,
LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me. For I have kept the ways of LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. For all his ordinances were before me. And as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. read more.
I was also perfect toward him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. Therefore LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his eyesight. With the merciful thou will show thyself merciful. With the perfect man thou will show thyself perfect. With the pure thou will show thyself pure. And with the perverse thou will show thyself contrary. And the afflicted people thou will save, but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou may bring them down.
I was also perfect toward him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. Therefore LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his eyesight. With the merciful thou will show thyself merciful. With the perfect man thou will show thyself perfect. With the pure thou will show thyself pure. And with the perverse thou will show thyself contrary. And the afflicted people thou will save, but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou may bring them down.
For he needs no further to consider a man, that he should go before God in judgment. He breaks in pieces mighty men [in ways] past finding out, and sets others in their stead. Therefore he takes knowledge of their works, and he overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed. read more.
He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others because they turned aside from following him, and would not have regard in any of his ways, so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted.
He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others because they turned aside from following him, and would not have regard in any of his ways, so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted.
I know that LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted man, and justice for the needy.
Verse Concepts
All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he who is of a cheerful heart [has] a continual feast.
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Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate. For LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.
Gates » Of cities » Courts of justice held at
Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate. For LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.
Thou shall make judges and officers for thee in all thy gates, which LORD thy God gives thee, according to thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
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And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. And it was so, that, when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, Of what city are thou? And he said, Thy
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Injustice » Specially to be avoided towards » The poor
Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate. For LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.
He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, [and] he who gives to a rich man, [comes] only to want.
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Thou shall not distort the justice [due] to thy poor in his case.
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