if he has oppressed the poor and needy, plundered by robbery, not restored the pledge, has lifted his eyes to the idols, or committed abomination;

has not oppressed anyone, nor withheld a pledge, nor plundered by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry and covered the naked with clothing;

As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, plundered his brother by robbery, and did what is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Behold, therefore, I have clapped My hands at the unjust gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst.

Her rulers in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, and to get dishonest gain.

The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the sojourner.

You shall neither mistreat a sojourner nor oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

If you afflict them to humiliate them, and they make an outcry to cry out unto Me, I will hear and give heed to their cry;

Also you shall not oppress a sojourner, for you know the soul of a sojourner, because you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another.

Look at me. Witness against me before Jehovah and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed, or from whose hand have I received any bribe with which to blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.

And they said, You have not cheated us nor oppressed us, nor have you taken anything from any man's hand.

If I despised the cause of my male or female servant when they have a dispute with me,

Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?

or eaten my morsel by myself, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or any poor man without covering;

if I have waved my hand against the fatherless, when I was looking after my help in the gate;

Do not be envious of the violent man, and choose none of his ways;

He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy upon the needy.

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor; nor oppress the afflicted in the gate;

for Jehovah will plead their case, and plunder the soul of those who plunder them.

Learn to do good, seek justice, set straight the oppressor, judge for the orphan, plead for the widow.

For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold an outcry!

He who walks righteously and speaks with equity; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands free from holding bribes, who stops his ear from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;

Is not this the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your hurt;

then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.

Thus says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn back from punishing it, for they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals.

Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, and make the poor of the land to fail,

in order to buy the poor with silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

Woe to those who devise wickedness and do evil on their beds! In the morning light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

You who hate good and love evil, who tear their skin off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, saying, Judge true justice, and show goodness and compassion, everyone to his brother.

But they refused to heed, and gave a stubborn shoulder, and they made their ears heavy that they might not hear.

And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against those swearing to a lie; and against those who defraud the hired laborer of his pay, and turn away the widow, and the fatherless, and the alien; and who do not fear Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your calamities that are coming upon you.

Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.

You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life, not committing iniquity, he shall live life; he shall not die.

If you indeed take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him by the going down of the sun.

And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

You shall return and bring the pledge back to him when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own garment and bless you; and it shall be righteousness in you before Jehovah your God.

You shall not pervert justice due the sojourner or the fatherless, nor take a widow's garment as a pledge.

For you have taken a pledge from your brother for no reason, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

they drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox as a pledge.

They seize the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.

And they lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and drink the wine of those being punished in the house of their God.

Make a chain, for the land is filled with bloody judgments, and the city is full of violence.

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And God looked upon the earth, and behold it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

Their webs shall not become garments, nor shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

Thus says Jehovah, Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong, do no violence to the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him. Was this not knowledge of Me? says Jehovah.

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and to do violence.

For they do not know to do right, declares Jehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

So, therefore because you trample on the poor, and you take tribute of grain from him; you have built houses of hewn stones, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.

For I know your many transgressions, and your many sins: afflicting the just, taking bribes, and thrusting away the poor from justice in the gate.

You who put the evil day far away, and cause the seat of violence to come near,

And I will punish all those who leap on the threshold in that day, who fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

has not oppressed anyone, nor withheld a pledge, nor plundered by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry and covered the naked with clothing;

If there is among you, of your brethren within any of the gates in your land which Jehovah your God is giving you, a man who is in need, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your needy brother,

Beware that there not be a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, approaches; and your eye be evil against your needy brother and you give him nothing, and he cry out to Jehovah against you, and it become sin unto you.

For the needy will never cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, You shall open, to open your hand unto your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land.

If I have withheld from the poor their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

(when from my youth, as a father I have raised him, and from my mother's womb I guided her);

if his heart has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] i0 par Blessed is he who gives attention to the poor; Jehovah will deliver him in the time of evil.

Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness; he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

He has dispersed abroad, he has given to the poor; his righteousness stands forever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.

There is one who scatters, yet increases more; but the one who withholds more than is right, tends to poverty.

The blessed soul will be made fat; he who waters shall also be watered himself.

He who increases his wealth by interest and usury, gathers it for him who will pity the poor.

He who gives to the poor shall not lack, but he who hides his eyes shall have many a curse.

Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, and that you should bring home the wandering poor? When you see the naked to cover him; and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Then you shall call, and Jehovah will answer; you shall cry out, and He shall say, Here I am. If you take the yoke away from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness;

And Jehovah shall guide you continually and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones fat; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

Then the King will say to those on His right hand, Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.

When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?

And the King will answer and say to them, Truly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.

for I was hungry and you did not give Me a thing to eat; I was thirsty and you did not give Me a thing to drink;

Then they also will answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?

And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

He answered and said to them, He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.

But as you abound in everything (in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us), see that you abound in this grace also.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound for every good work.

Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for eating, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

For the ministry of this service not only supplies what is lacking to the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God,

and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

For judgment will be without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Indeed, mercy rejoices over judgment.

If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,

Thus also faith, if it does not have works, being alone, is dead.

By this we know the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.