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Ezekiel 18:7

Young's Literal Translation 1862

A man -- he doth not oppress, His pledge to the debtor he doth return, Plunder he doth not take away, His bread to the hungry he doth give, And the naked doth cover with a garment,

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And also, I, my brethren, and my servants, are exacting of them silver and corn; let us leave off, I pray you, this usury.

For thou takest a pledge of thy brother for nought, And the garments of the naked Thou dost strip off.

The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,

They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.

Light hath risen in darkness to the upright, Gracious, and merciful, and righteous.

He hath scattered -- hath given to the needy, His righteousness is standing for ever, His horn is exalted with honour.

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.

`If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;

if thou dost at all take in pledge the garment of thy neighbour, during the going in of the sun thou dost return it to him:

`And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, and ye -- ye have known the soul of the sojourner, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.

An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.

Whoso is giving to the poor hath no lack, And whoso is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.

Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

Be not envious of a man of violence, Nor fix thou on any of his ways.

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive `for' the widow.

Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,

Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts `Is' the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.

Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.

The afflicted and needy he hath oppressed, Plunder he hath taken violently away, A pledge he doth not return, And unto the idols he hath lifted up his eyes, Abomination he hath done!

A man -- he hath not oppressed, A pledge he hath not bound, And plunder he hath not taken away, His bread to the hungry he hath given, And the naked he covered with a garment,

His father -- because he used oppression, Did violently Plunder a brother, And that which `is' not good did in the midst of his people, And lo, he is dying in his iniquity.

(The pledge the wicked restoreth, plunder he repayeth,) In the statutes of life he hath walked, So as not to do perversity, He surely liveth -- he doth not die.

Make the chain; for the land Hath been full of bloody judgments, And the city hath been full of violence.

`Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and thy sins by righteousness break off, and thy perversity by pitying the poor, lo, it is a lengthening of thine ease.

`Thou dost not oppress thy neighbour, nor take plunder; the wages of the hireling doth not remain with thee till morning.

`Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.

`And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their selling for silver the righteous, And the needy for a pair of sandals.

And on pledged garments they stretch themselves near every altar, And the wine of fined ones they drink `in' the house of their gods.

And they have not known to act straightforwardly, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.

Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence,

Wo `to' those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.

Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones,

And I have laid a charge on every one Who is leaping over the threshold in that day, Who are filling the house of their masters `With' violence and deceit.

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

and he answering saith to them, `He having two coats -- let him impart to him having none, and he having victuals -- in like manner let him do.'

`Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take in pledge the garment of a widow;




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