Exodus 22:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;

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  • Luke 18:7 : 7 And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
  • Ps 18:6 : 6 In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.
  • Deut 15:9 : 9 And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.
  • Job 34:28 : 28 So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.
  • Job 35:9 : 9 Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.
  • Ps 10:17-18 : 17 Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing: 18 To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.
  • Ps 145:19 : 19 To his worshippers, he will give their desire; their cry comes to his ears, and he gives them salvation.
  • Ps 146:7-9 : 7 Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free; 8 The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright; 9 The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.
  • Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge: 23 For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.
  • Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father; 11 For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
  • Deut 24:15 : 15 Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.
  • Job 31:38-39 : 38 If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow; 39 If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;
  • Ps 140:12 : 12 I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 22:21-22
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    21Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.

    22Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.

  • Exod 22:24-25
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    79%

    24And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

    25If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.

  • Job 34:28
    76%

    28So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.

  • Ps 106:44
    75%

    44But when their cry came to his ears, he had pity on their trouble:

  • Ps 22:24
    74%

    24For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.

  • Jer 7:6
    74%

    6If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:

  • Ezek 22:7
    74%

    7In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

  • Prov 22:22-23
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    72%

    22Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

    23For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.

  • Deut 26:7
    72%

    7And our cry went up to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord's ear was open to the voice of our cry, and his eyes took note of our grief and the crushing weight of our work:

  • Exod 3:7
    72%

    7And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;

  • Job 22:9
    71%

    9You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

  • Jer 11:11
    71%

    11So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.

  • Job 35:9
    71%

    9Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.

  • Prov 21:13
    71%

    13He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.

  • Lam 3:33
    71%

    33For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.

  • Job 31:16
    71%

    16If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

  • Exod 3:9
    71%

    9For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.

  • Deut 24:17
    71%

    17Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:

  • Nah 1:12
    71%

    12This is what the Lord has said: The days of my cause against you are ended; they are cut off and past. Though I have sent trouble on you, you will no longer be troubled.

  • Job 36:8
    71%

    8And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,

  • Deut 27:19
    70%

    19Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Job 31:21
    70%

    21If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

  • Job 36:15
    70%

    15He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.

  • Ps 107:39
    70%

    39And when they are made low, and crushed by trouble and sorrow,

  • Job 29:12
    70%

    12For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.

  • Ps 34:17
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    17The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles.

  • Jer 22:3
    70%

    3This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

  • Exod 22:27
    70%

    27For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great.

  • Mic 3:4
    70%

    4Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.

  • Ps 82:3
    70%

    3Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.

  • Prov 23:11
    70%

    11For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

  • Exod 23:6
    70%

    6Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

  • Exod 2:24
    69%

    24And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.

  • Ezek 8:18
    69%

    18For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity.

  • 2 Sam 22:28
    69%

    28For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but your eyes are on men of pride, to make them low.

  • Deut 4:30
    69%

    30When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future, you are turned again to the Lord your God, and give ear to his voice:

  • Lev 25:43
    69%

    43Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.

  • Job 30:25
    69%

    25Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?

  • Jer 15:11
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  • Ps 94:6
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    6They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

  • Ezek 27:30
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    30And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:

  • Deut 24:21
    69%

    21When you are pulling the grapes from your vines, do not take up those which have been dropped; let them be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow.

  • Jer 30:20
    69%

    20And their children will be as they were in the old days, and the meeting of the people will have its place before me, and I will send punishment on all who are cruel to them.

  • Deut 24:14
    69%

    14Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

  • Exod 1:12
    69%

    12But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.

  • Ps 39:12
    69%

    12Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.