Leviticus 25:14

In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

“ ‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Yahweh was with Judah, and drove out the inhabitants of the hill country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

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.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

“You shall not steal.

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.

You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

The children of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.

As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

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

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

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.

Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

He went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

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.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”

When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.

He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”

and say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.” ’ ”

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand.

All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.

who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

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.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

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;

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

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.

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.”

No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.

that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.