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Exodus 22:23

Bible in Basic English 1965

If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;

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So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.

Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.

You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.

To his worshippers, he will give their desire; their cry comes to his ears, and he gives them salvation.

In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.

A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great.

We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.

And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.

And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.

Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.

See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.




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