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Exodus 22:24

New English Translation

and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.

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I considered these things carefully and then registered a complaint with the wealthy and the officials. I said to them, “Each one of you is seizing the collateral from your own countrymen!” Because of them I called for a great public assembly.

For the calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I was powerless.

For they say cruel and deceptive things to me; they lie to me.

May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!

He does not charge interest when he lends his money. He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. The one who lives like this will never be upended.

Pour out your judgment on them! May your raging anger overtake them!

You are awesome! Yes, you! Who can withstand your intense anger?

Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you.

Their widows will become in my sight more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashores. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men. I will cause anguish and terror to fall suddenly upon them.

So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident.

Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.

No one can withstand his indignation! No one can resist his fierce anger! His wrath is poured out like volcanic fire, boulders are broken up as he approaches.

Give, and it will be given to you: A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be poured into your lap. For the measure you use will be the measure you receive.”

You may lend with interest to a foreigner, but not to your fellow Israelite; if you keep this command the Lord your God will bless you in all you undertake in the land you are about to enter to possess.

When you make a vow to the Lord your God you must not delay in fulfilling it, for otherwise he will surely hold you accountable as a sinner.

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.




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