Proverbs 22:23

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

For Jehovah will contend their contention, and rob the soul to those robbing them.

Cross References

Psalm 140:12

Knowing that Jehovah will do judgment to the poor one, judgment to the needy.

Psalm 12:5

From the oppression of the poor, from the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, Jehovah will say; I will set with salvation, he will puff at him.

Proverbs 23:11

For he redeeming them, he is strong; he will contend their contention with thee.

Jeremiah 51:36

For this, thus said Jehovah: Behold me pleading thy cause, and I took vengeance with thy vengeance; and I dried up her sea, and made her fountains dry.

1 Samuel 25:39

And David will hear that Nabal died, and he will say, Blessed Jehovah who plead the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and held back his servant from evil: and the evil of Nabal Jehovah turned back upon his head. And David will send and will speak with Abigail to take her to him for wife.

Psalm 35:10

All my bones shall say, O Jehovah, who as thee, delivering the poor from him strong above him, and the poor and the needy from him stripping him?

Psalm 43:1

Judge me, O God, and contend my contention from a nation not godly: from the man of deceit and iniquity thou wilt deliver me.

Malachi 3:5

And I came near to you for judgment: and I was a swift witness against those practicing magic, and against those committing adultery, and against those swearing to falsehood, and against those oppressing the hire of the hireling, the widow and the orphan, and those turning aside the stranger, and they feared not me, said Jehovah of armies.

Micah 7:9

The anger of Jehovah I will bear, for I sinned against him till he shall maintain my contention, and do my judgment: he will bring me forth to the light, I shall look upon his justice.

Jeremiah 50:34

He redeeming them is strong; Jehovah of armies, his name: pleading, he will plead their cause, so that he caused the land to rest, and caused disquiet to the inhabitants of Babel.

Habakkuk 2:8

For thou didst spoil many nations, all the rest of the peoples shall spoil thee; from the bloods of man, and the violence of the land, of the city, and all dwelling in it.

Isaiah 33:1

Wo to thee oppressing, and thou not oppressed; and spoiling, and they spoiled not upon thee! when thou finishing to oppress, thou shalt be oppressed; when thou ceasing to spoil, they shall spoil upon thee.

Psalm 68:5

A father of orphans and a judge of widows, God in his holy habitation.

Psalm 35:1

To David. Contend, O Jehovah, with them contending with me: fight with those fighting with me.

1 Samuel 24:12

And Jehovah will judge between me and between thee, and Jehovah avenge me of thee: and my hand shall not be upon thee.

1 Samuel 24:15

And Jehovah being for defender, and judge between me and between thee; and he will see and plead my cause, and he will judge me out of thine hand.

Exodus 22:22

Every widow and orphan ye shall not afflict.

Exodus 22:23

If afflicting, thou shalt afflict him, if crying, he shall cry to me, hearing, I will hear his cry.

Psalm 12:6

The sayings of Jehovah are pure sayings: silver tried in the crucible of the earth, purified seven times.

Psalm 103:6

Jehovah did justices and judgments to all being oppressed.

Psalm 140:13

But the just shall confess to thy name: the upright shall dwell with thy face.

Proverbs 21:7

The violence of the unjust shall sweep them away, for they refuse to do judgment

Jeremiah 30:16

For this, all consuming thee shall be consumed; and all thine adversaries, all of them shall go into captivity; and they spoiling thee, were for spoiling, and all plundering thee I will give to plunder.