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Nehemiah 5:7

Young's Literal Translation 1862

and my heart reigneth over me, and I strive with the freemen, and with the prefects, and say to them, `Usury one upon another ye are exacting;' and I set against them a great assembly,

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An exactor layeth a snare for all that he hath, And strangers spoil his labour.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who doth sojourn in Thy tent? Who doth dwell in Thy holy hill?

His silver he hath not given in usury, And a bribe against the innocent Hath not taken; Whoso is doing these is not moved to the age!

To Thee said my heart `They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

`Tremble ye, and do not sin;' Say ye `thus' in your heart on your bed, And be ye silent. Selah.

Who riseth up for me with evil doers? Who stationeth himself for me with workers of iniquity?

and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.

`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;

Better `is' open reproof than hidden love.

Those forsaking the law praise the wicked, Those keeping the law plead against them.

A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!

`Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you -- princes of Israel; violence and spoil turn aside, and judgment and righteousness do; lift up your exactions from off My people -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

`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.

thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;

`And if he may not hear them, say `it' to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy,

Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;

these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!




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