Jeremiah 22:3

Modern English Version

Thus says the Lord: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver the robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong or violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:3

The God of Israel said, the rock of Israel spoke to me: He who rules over man justly, who rules in the fear of God,

2 Kings 24:4

and also for the innocent blood that he had shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to pardon.

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away empty, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

Job 24:9

They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless and a protector of the widows is God in His holy habitation.

Psalm 82:4

Rescue the poor and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

Psalm 94:21

They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn innocent blood.

Psalm 94:6

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

Exodus 22:21

You must neither wrong a foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 22:22

You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.

Proverbs 23:10

Remove not the ancient landmark, nor enter the fields of the fatherless,

Proverbs 6:17

a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and break every yoke?

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the poor who are outcasts into your house? When you see the naked, to cover him and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Jeremiah 19:4

Because they have forsaken Me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with the blood of the innocent,

Jeremiah 21:12

O house of David; thus says the Lord: Execute justice each morning, and deliver him who has been robbed from the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go out like fire and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are intent only on your covetousness and on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and violence.

Jeremiah 26:16

Then the officials and all the people said to the priests 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 fat, they are sleek. Indeed, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They do not judge the cause of the fatherless, so that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they do not defend.

Jeremiah 7:23

But this thing I commanded them, saying, “Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.”

Jeremiah 9:24

but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, 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 does not approve.

Ezekiel 18:12

has oppressed the poor and needy, has devastated by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

Ezekiel 18:7

and he has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge; has devastated no one by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have treated father and mother with contempt. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they have vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus says the Lord God: Let it suffice you officials of Israel. Remove violence and destruction, and execute justice and righteousness. Take away your exactions from My people, says the Lord God.

Joel 3:19

Egypt will become a desolation, and Edom a desolate wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah— they shed innocent blood in their land.

Leviticus 19:15

You shall do no unrighteousness in a court. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person who is great, but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and establish justice at the gate. It may then be that the Lord God of Hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Amos 5:24

But let justice roll down like water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Micah 3:11

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet upon the Lord they lean, saying, “Is not the Lord in our midst? Evil will not come upon us.”

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O man, what is good— and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who turn aside the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord of Hosts.

Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint and dill and cumin, but have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done without leaving the others undone.

Deuteronomy 10:18

He executes the judgment of the orphan and the widow and loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 24:17

You must not pervert the justice of the foreigner or of the fatherless, nor take a widow’s cloak as a pledge.

Deuteronomy 24:7

If a man is found kidnapping any of his brothers of the Israelites, and makes property of him or sells him, then that kidnapper must die, and you must remove the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 25:1

If there is a controversy between men, they are to go to court for judgment, so that the judges may judge them. Then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.

Deuteronomy 27:19

“Cursed is he who perverts justice for the foreigner, orphan, and widow.” And all the people shall say, “Amen.”

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.