Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Afflictions » The afflicted
Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any manner, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God. For I have all his ordinances before me and am attentive to his statutes; I will not depart from them. read more.
And I was perfect before him and have kept myself from my iniquity. Therefore, the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness before his eyes. With the merciful thou art good, and with the perfect thou art upright. With the pure thou art pure, and with the perverse thou art an adversary. Thou wilt save the poor in spirit; but thine eyes are upon the haughty that thou may bring them down.
And I was perfect before him and have kept myself from my iniquity. Therefore, the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness before his eyes. With the merciful thou art good, and with the perfect thou art upright. With the pure thou art pure, and with the perverse thou art an adversary. Thou wilt save the poor in spirit; but thine eyes are upon the haughty that thou may bring them down.
For he will not lay upon man more than that which is just; that he should enter into judgment with God. He shall break in pieces mighty men without number and set others in their stead. Therefore, he shall cause their works to be notorious, when he shall overturn them in the night, so that they are destroyed. read more.
He shall strike them as wicked men in the open sight of others because thus they turned back from him and would not consider any of his ways so that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted.
He shall strike them as wicked men in the open sight of others because thus they turned back from him and would not consider any of his ways so that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted.
I know that the LORD will effect the judgment of the poor and the judgment of the destitute.
All the days of the poor are difficult, but he that is of a good heart has a continual feast.
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither destroy the destitute in judgment: For the LORD will judge their cause and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
Gates » Of cities » Courts of justice held at
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither destroy the destitute in judgment: For the LORD will judge their cause and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all the gates of thy cities, which the LORD thy God shall give thee throughout thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with just (and righteous) judgment.
And Absalom rose up early and stood beside the way of the gate; and when anyone that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto them and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy slave is of one of the tribes of Israel.
Injustice » Specially to be avoided towards » The poor
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither destroy the destitute in judgment: For the LORD will judge their cause and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches and who gives to the rich shall surely come to want.
Thou shalt not pervert the rights of thy poor in his cause.