And you shall not hurt a stranger, nor afflict him; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

And if you should afflict them by ill treatment, and they should cry aloud to Me, I will surely hear their voice.

And you shall not afflict a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger; for you yourselves were strangers in the land of Egypt.

You shall not unjustly withhold the wages of the poor and needy of your brothers, or of the strangers who are in your cities.

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the sons shall not be put to death for the fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.

And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this thing.

Cursed is everyone that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow. And all the people shall say, So be it.

He shall judge the poor of the people in righteousness, and save the children of the needy; and shall bring low the false accuser.

Do no violence to the poor, for he is needy, neither dishonor the helpless man in the gates.

For the Lord will plead his cause, and you shall deliver your soul in safety.

Remove not the ancient landmarks, and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless;

for the Lord is their redeemer; He is mighty, and will plead their cause with you.

Wash, and be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before My eyes; cease from your iniquities;

learn to do well; diligently seek judgment, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow.

Your princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.

They have transgressed [the rule of] judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.

Shall you reign because you are provoked with your father Ahaz? They shall not eat, and they shall not drink: it is better for you to execute justice and righteousness.

Behold, your eyes are not good, nor your heart, but [they go] after your covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.

In you they have reviled father and mother; and in you they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger; they have oppressed the orphan and widow.

In you they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in you interest and usurious increase; and by oppression you have brought your wickedness to the full, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord.

That sorely oppress the people of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the stranger.

Hear this word, you heifers of the land of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us, that we may drink.

Therefore because they have smitten the poor with their fists, and you have received of them choice gifts, you have built polished houses, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink the wine of them.

For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside [the judgment of] the poor in the gates.

They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.

Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I devise evils against this family, out of which you shall not lift up your necks, neither shall you walk upright speedily: for the time is evil.

And He shall say, Hear now these words, you heads of the house of Jacob, and you remnant of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know judgment?

even as they devoured the flesh of My people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided [them] as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot,

[ 3:1A] Alas the glorious and ransomed city.

Her princes within her were as roaring lions, her judges as the wolves of Arabia; they remained not till the morning.

And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by My name, and against them that keep back the hireling's wages, and them that oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord Almighty.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the kingdom of heaven before men; for you do not enter, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

nor covetous, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor abusive people, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Indeed, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, which were kept back by you, cry out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

For they intended evil against You; they imagined a device which they shall by no means be able to perform.

He devises iniquity on his bed; he gives himself to every evil way; and does not abhor evil.

Who have devised injustice in their hearts; all the day they prepared war.

Do not devise evil against your friend, living near you and trusting in you.

a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil, [are hateful to God].

But I, as an innocent lamb led to the slaughter, did not know. Against me they devised an evil device, saying, Come and let us put wood into his bread, and let us utterly destroy him from off the land of the living, and let his name not be remembered any more.

O Lord, [You] that judges righteously, and who tests the heart and the most secret parts, let me see Your vengeance [taken] upon them, for to You I have declared my cause.

Then they said, Come, and let us devise a plan against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us attack him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words.

They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.

For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

All these evil things come from within and defile a man."

But each [one] is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn away and being seduced [by them].

Then lust, when it conceives, gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.