if he has exacted usury or taken increase; shall he then live? He shall not live! If he has done any of these abominations, he shall die the death; his blood shall be upon him.

who has withdrawn his hand from the poor and not received usury or increase, but has executed My judgments and walked in My statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father; he shall live life!

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.

If you lend money to My people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not lay interest on him.

If one of your brethren becomes poor, and his hand has become shaky, then you shall support him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.

You shall not give him your money at interest, nor give him your food at a profit.

You shall not charge interest to your brother; interest on money or food or anything that is loaned at interest.

To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, that Jehovah your God may bless you in all to which you put your hand in the land which you are entering to possess.

And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their brothers the Jews.

There were also some who said, We have mortgaged our fields and vineyards and houses, that we might buy grain because of the famine.

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and indeed we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been brought into slavery. It is not in our power to redeem them, for other men have our fields and vineyards.

After serious thought, I rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, Each of you is exacting usury from his brother. So I appointed a great assembly against them.

Then I said, What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?

Restore now to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also a hundredth of the money and the grain, the new wine and the oil, that you have charged them.

he has not put out his money at interest, nor has he taken a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

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

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither loaned with usury, nor have men loaned to me; yet every one curses me.

I was also whole before Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.

But the former governors who had been before me were heavy on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people, but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

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;

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.

You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of size, weight, or measure.

And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the sojourner.

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of any man's presence, for the judgment is God's. And any matter that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.

You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which Jehovah your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Justice, only justice shall you follow, that you may live and inherit the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you.

when I went out to the gate through the city, when I set up my seat in the open square.

the rulers refrained from talking, and put their hand on their mouth;

When the ear heard, it blessed me, and when the eye saw, it bore witness to me;

The blessing of the dying man came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.

I broke the fangs of the perverse, and flung out the prey from his teeth.

Open your mouth for the mute, for the judgment of all those sentenced to destruction.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the case of the poor and needy.

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

Shall you reign, because you lust after cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

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

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

And do not oppress the widow, or the fatherless, the alien, or the poor. And do not devise evil in your heart, a man against his brother.

These are the things that you shall do. Every man speak the truth with his neighbor. Judge truth, justice and peace in your gates,