Proverbs 22:23 - New Revised Standard Version

²³ for the Lord pleads their cause and despoils of life those who despoil them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ For the LORD will plead their cause, And spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ For the Lord will plead their cause and deprive of life those who deprive [the poor or afflicted]. [Zech. 7:10; Mal. 3:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ For Jehovah will plead their cause, And despoil of life those that despoil them.

Common English Bible

²³ The LORD will take up their case and press the life out of those who oppress them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ For the Lord will judge his case, and he will pierce those who have pierced his soul.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ Because the Lord will judge his cause, and will afflict them that have afflicted his soul.

Proverbs 22:23 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 103:6

The Lord works vindication and justice for all who are oppressed.

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now rise up,” says the Lord; “I will place them in the safety for which they long.”

Psalm 12:6

The promises of the Lord are promises that are pure, silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

Psalm 140:12

I know that the Lord maintains the cause of the needy, and executes justice for the poor.

Psalm 140:13

Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name; the upright shall live in your presence.

Psalm 35:1

Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me!

Psalm 35:10

All my bones shall say, “O Lord, who is like you? You deliver the weak from those too strong for them, the weak and needy from those who despoil them.”

Psalm 43:1

Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from those who are deceitful and unjust deliver me!

Psalm 68:5

Father of orphans and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

Exodus 22:22

You shall not abuse any widow or orphan.

Exodus 22:23

If you do abuse them, when they cry out to me, I will surely heed their cry;

Proverbs 21:7

The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just.

Proverbs 23:11

for their redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.

Isaiah 33:1

Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed; you treacherous one, with whom no one has dealt treacherously! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have stopped dealing treacherously, you will be dealt with treacherously.

Jeremiah 30:16

Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured, and all your foes, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; those who plunder you shall be plundered, and all who prey on you I will make a prey.

Jeremiah 50:34

Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:36

Therefore thus says the Lord: I am going to defend your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry;

Micah 7:9

I must bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he takes my side and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall see his vindication.

Habakkuk 2:8

Because you have plundered many nations, all that survive of the peoples shall plunder you— because of human bloodshed, and violence to the earth, to cities and all who live in them.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

1 Samuel 24:12

May the Lord judge between me and you! May the Lord avenge me on you; but my hand shall not be against you.

1 Samuel 24:15

May the Lord therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you. May he see to it, and plead my cause, and vindicate me against you.”

1 Samuel 25:39

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the Lord who has judged the case of Nabal's insult to me, and has kept back his servant from evil; the Lord has returned the evildoing of Nabal upon his own head.” Then David sent and wooed Abigail, to make her his wife.