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7/10 · strong
15 “Mother, embrace your children. I will bring them out with gladness like a dove does. Establish their feet, for I have chosen you, says the Lord. (WEB) 16 I will raise those who are dead up again from their places, and bring them out from their tombs, for I recognize my name in them. (WEB) 17 Don’t be afraid, you mother of children, for I have chosen you, says the Lord. (WEB) 18 For your help, I will send my servants Esaias and Jeremy, after whose counsel I have sanctified and prepared for you twelve trees laden with various fruits, (WEB) 19 and as many springs flowing with milk and honey, and seven mighty mountains, on which roses and lilies grow, with which I will fill your children with joy. (WEB) 20 Do right to the widow. Secure justice for the fatherless. Give to the poor. Defend the orphan. Clothe the naked. (WEB) 21 Heal the broken and the weak. Don’t laugh a lame man to scorn. Defend the maimed. Let the blind man have a vision of my glory. (WEB) 22 Protect the old and young within your walls. (WEB) 23 Wherever you find the dead, set a sign upon them and commit them to the grave, and I will give you the first place in my resurrection. (WEB)
4/10 · fair
1 Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees, 2 to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder. 3 What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
4/10 · fair
11 Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
6/10 · good
14 Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns. 15 You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin. 16 Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin. 17 Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security. 18 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this. 19 If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20 When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow. 21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
5/10 · good
7 Injure not widows nor orphans nor strangers, lest God's wrath come upon you. (2EN)
6/10 · good
22 You must not mistreat any widow or orphan. 23 If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry. 24 My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless. 25 If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest. 26 If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset, 27 because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
4/10 · fair
6 For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing. 7 You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished, 8 while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it. 9 You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
4/10 · fair
1 Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace! 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. 3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows. 4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price. 5 We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest. 6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread. 7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment. 8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands. 9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness. 10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger. 11 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
5/10 · good
11 For those who heard me called me blessed, and those who saw me commended me, 12 because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper. 13 The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban. 15 I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame. 16 I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger. 17 I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
3/10 · fair
1 O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth. 2 Rise up, O Judge of the earth; render a reward to the proud. 3 How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult? 4 They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast. 5 They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage. 6 They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless. 7 They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”