Proverbs 22:28

You 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.

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

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.

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.’

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,

As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, “Is the seer here?”

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,

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

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.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

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;

My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places,

For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

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.

The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

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.”

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

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.”

but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

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.