Deuteronomy 19:14
Hebrew Text— Deuteronomy 19:14You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess.
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Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Don’t move the ancient boundary stone which your fathers have set up.
The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.
The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.
As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you will be melted in the middle of it; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.’ ”
Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,
and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.
They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.
They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.
For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.
Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.
The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;
For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
Now I will shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.
Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh’s house, which looks eastward. Behold, twenty-five men were at the door of the gate; and I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”
Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.