Zechariah 7:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And oppress not the widow or the fatherless, the temporary resident or the poor, and let none of you devise or imagine or think evil against his brother in your heart. American Standard Version (1901) and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart. Common English Bible Don’t oppress the widow, the orphan, the stranger, and the poor; don’t plan evil against each other! Catholic Public Domain Version And do not find fault with the widow, and the orphan, and the newcomer, and the poor. And let not a man consider evil in his heart towards his brother. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger, and the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against his brother. |
If they plan evil against you, if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
They plot mischief while on their beds; they are set on a way that is not good; they do not reject evil.
May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor.
“You shall not oppress a resident alien; you know the heart of an alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan, and the widow’s cause does not come before them.
Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us bring charges against him, and let us not heed any of his words.”
O house of David! Thus says the Lord: Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed, or else my wrath will go forth like fire and burn, with no one to quench it, because of their evil doings.
Leave your orphans; I will keep them alive, and let your widows trust in me.
they have grown fat and sleek. They know no limits in deeds of wickedness; they do not judge with justice the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,
oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,
In you, they take bribes to shed blood; you take both advance interest and accrued interest and make gain of your neighbors by extortion, and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy and have extorted from the alien without justice.
Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you.
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring something to drink!”
do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these are things that I hate, says the Lord.”
Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.
thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, swindlers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.
“ ‘Cursed be anyone who deprives an alien, an orphan, or a widow of justice.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’
Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
All who hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them.