Jeremiah 22:3

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Thus says the LORD: Execute you justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:3

The God of Yisra'el said, the Rock of Yisra'el spoke to me, one who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

2 Kings 24:4

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Yerushalayim with innocent blood: and the LORD would not pardon.

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Job 24:9

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Psalm 82:4

Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.*

Psalm 94:21

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

Psalm 94:6

They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

Exodus 22:21

*You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 22:22

*You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

Proverbs 23:10

Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Isaiah 58:6

Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Isaiah 58:7

Isn't it to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Jeremiah 19:4

Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Yehudah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

Jeremiah 21:12

House of David, thus says the LORD, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Jeremiah 26:16

Then said the princes and all the people to the Kohanim and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 5:28

They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge.

Jeremiah 7:23

but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk you in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

Jeremiah 9:24

but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am the LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.

Lamentations 3:36

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve.

Ezekiel 18:12

has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

Ezekiel 18:7

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Ezekiel 22:7

In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus says the Lord GOD: Let it suffice you, princes of Yisra'el: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord GOD.

Joel 3:19

Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Yehudah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Leviticus 19:15

*'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that the LORD, the God Tzeva'ot, will be gracious to the remnant of Yosef.*

Amos 5:24

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Micah 3:11

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her Kohanim teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on the LORD, and say, *Isn't the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.*

Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Malachi 3:5

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me,* says the LORD of Armies.

Matthew 23:23

*Woe to you, scribes and Perushim, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the Torah: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

Deuteronomy 10:18

He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 24:17

You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

Deuteronomy 24:7

If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Yisra'el, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.

Deuteronomy 25:1

If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amein.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.