For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.
James 2:6 - Y'all Version Bible But y’all have dishonored the poor. Don’t the rich oppress y’all and personally drag y’all into court? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But you [in contrast] have insulted (humiliated, dishonored, and shown your contempt for) the poor. Is it not the rich who domineer over you? Is it not they who drag you into the law courts? American Standard Version (1901) But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats? Common English Bible But you have dishonored the poor. Don’t the wealthy make life difficult for you? Aren’t they the ones who drag you into court? Catholic Public Domain Version But you have dishonored the poor. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you through power? And are not they the ones who drag you to judgment? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But you have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you by might? and do not they draw you before the judgment seats? |
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.
The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You have been a helper to the victim and the fatherless.
In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
He lies in wait near the villages. In hidden places, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
“Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says YHWH. “I will provide the safety they desire.”
Y’all humiliate the plans of the poor, because YHWH is their shelter.
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. Whoever is glad at calamity will not be unpunished.
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
Y’all must listen to this word, cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
Therefore, because y’all trample on the poor and take a wheat tax, though y’all have built houses of cut stone, y’all will never dwell in them. Y’all have planted pleasant vineyards, but y’all will not drink their wine.
You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
Y’all must not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, or the poor. And don’t plan evil in y’all’s heart against anyone.’
Jesus answered, “I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father and y’all dishonor me.
But the Jews incited the prominent God-fearing women and the prominent men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their region.
When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and some of the siblings before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have stirred up trouble all around the world have now come here,
When Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews united with one mind to attack Paul and brought him before the place of judgment,
But Saul began ravaging the church. He entered every house, dragging out men and women and putting them into prison.
Don’t y’all have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do y’all despise the church of God and humiliate those who don’t have enough? What should I say to y’all? Should I praise y’all? I do not praise this.
and y’all pay special attention to one wearing fine clothes and y’all say, “You sit here in a good place,” but y’all tell the poor person, “You stand over there,” or “Sit by my footstool,”
Look! The wages of the laborers who mowed y’all’s fields, which y’all have kept back by fraud, cry out against y’all. The cries of the harvesters have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
Y’all have condemned and murdered the righteous person who was not resisting y’all.