Exodus 22:26

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.

If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down, for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you?

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,

If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

“ ‘ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he will die in his iniquity.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

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.

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;

You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.

A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt;

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.

if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he will surely live. He will not die.

for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”

Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.