Proverbs 22:23

Bishops' Bible (1568)

For the Lorde him selfe wyll defende their cause, and do violence vnto them that haue vsed violence.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 25:39 : 39 And when Dauid heard that Nabal was dead, he sayd: Blessed be the Lord that hath iudged ye cause of my rebuke of the hand of Nabal, & hath kept his seruaunt from euill: For the Lord hath recompenced the wickednes of Nabal vpon his owne head. And Dauid sent to commune with Abigail, to take her to his wyfe.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 For the calamities of the oppressed, for the deepe sighyng of the poore, I wyll nowe vp sayeth God: and I wyll put in safetie, hym whom the wicked hath snared.
  • Ps 140:12 : 12 I am sure that God wyll dispatche the cause of the afflicted: and he wyll geue iudgement for the needy.
  • Prov 23:11 : 11 For their redeemer is mightie, euen he shall defend their cause against thee.
  • Ps 35:10 : 10 All my bones shall say, God who is lyke vnto thee? whiche deliuerest the poore from hym that is to strong for him: yea the poore and him that is in miserie, from him that spoyleth him.
  • Jer 51:36 : 36 Therfore thus saith the Lorde, Beholde I wyll defende thy cause, and auenge thee, I wyll drynke vp her sea, and drye vp her water sprynges.
  • Mic 7:9 : 9 I will beare the wrath of the Lord, for I haue offended hym till he sit in iudgement vpon my cause, and see that I haue right: then will he bring me foorth to the light, and I shall see his righteousnesse.
  • Ps 68:5 : 5 He is a father of the fatherlesse, and the iudge of widdowes: he is the Lord in his holy habitation.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I wyl come neare to you in iudgement, and I wyll be a swyft witnesse against the soothsayers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that wrongfully keepe backe the hirelynges wages, and vexe the widowe and the fatherlesse, and oppresse the straunger, and feare not me, saith the Lorde of hoastes.
  • Ps 43:1 : 1 Iudge me O Lorde, and debate my cause with an vnnaturall people: oh delyuer me from the deceiptfull and wicked man.
  • Isa 33:1 : 1 Wo to thee that destroyest when thou wast not destroyed, thou breakest ye league where as none hath broken it with thee: for when thou shalt leaue destroying, thou thy selfe shalt be destroyed: and when thou ceassest from breakyng the league, then shall they breake it to thee.
  • Jer 50:34 : 34 But their auenger and redeemer is mightie, whose name is the Lorde of hoastes, he shall maynteyne their cause, he shal make the lande shake, and iudge them that dwell therin, one with another
  • Ps 35:1 : 1 Of Dauid. Pleade thou my cause O God, with them that striue with me: and fight thou agaynst them that fight against me.
  • 1 Sam 24:12 : 12 The Lorde be iudge betweene thee and me, & the Lorde auenge me of thee: but myne hande be not vpon thee.
  • 1 Sam 24:15 : 15 The Lorde therfore be iudge, & iudge betweene thee & me, and see & pleade my cause, & auenge me out of thyne hande.
  • Hab 2:8 : 8 Because thou hast spoyled many nations, all the remnaunt of the people shall spoyle thee, because of mens blood, and for the wrong done in the lande, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therin.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 22:22
    82%

    22 Rob not the poore, because he is poore: and oppresse not the simple in iudgement:

  • Prov 23:11
    78%

    11 For their redeemer is mightie, euen he shall defend their cause against thee.

  • Prov 21:7
    77%

    7 The robberies of the vngodly shalbe their owne destruction: for they wyll not do the thing that is right.

  • Isa 10:2
    77%

    2 Where thorowe the poore are put from their right, and my seelie people robbed of iudgement, that wydowes may be their pray, and that they may rob the fatherlesse.

  • Isa 3:13-15
    3 verses
    76%

    13 The Lorde is here to commune of the matter, & standeth to iudge the people.

    14 The Lorde shall enter into iudgement with the elders and princes of his people, and shall say to them: It is ye that haue burnt vp my vineyarde, the spoyle of the poore is in your houses.

    15 What meane ye that ye bray as in a morter my people, and grinde the faces of the poore? saith the Lorde God of hoastes.

  • Isa 42:22
    75%

    22 But the people them selues is robbed and troden vnder the foote, chayned in dungeons, and they all I say, are shut into prison houses: they be caryed away captiue, and no man doth loose them: they be troden vnder foote, and no man doth labour to bryng them agayne.

  • Ezek 23:46
    75%

    46 Wherfore thus saith the Lorde God, I wyll bryng a great multitude of people vpon them, and geue them to be scattered and spoyled:

  • Isa 33:1
    75%

    1 Wo to thee that destroyest when thou wast not destroyed, thou breakest ye league where as none hath broken it with thee: for when thou shalt leaue destroying, thou thy selfe shalt be destroyed: and when thou ceassest from breakyng the league, then shall they breake it to thee.

  • Exod 23:6
    75%

    6 Thou shalt not hinder the right of thy poore in his suite.

  • Amos 5:9
    75%

    9 He strengthneth the destroyer against the mightie, & the destroyer shall come against the fortresse.

  • Hab 2:8
    74%

    8 Because thou hast spoyled many nations, all the remnaunt of the people shall spoyle thee, because of mens blood, and for the wrong done in the lande, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therin.

  • Ps 82:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 Iudge ryght vnto the poore and fatherlesse: dispatch according to iustice suche as be afflicted and in necessitie.

    4 Deliuer the poore and outcast: saue them from the hande of the vngodly.

  • Isa 5:23
    74%

    23 Wo be vnto them that geue sentence with the vngodly for rewardes, but condempne the iust cause of the ryghteous.

  • Jer 30:16
    74%

    16 And therfore all they that deuour thee, shalbe deuoured, and all thine enemies shalbe led into captiuitie: all they that make thee waste, shalbe wasted them selues, and all those that rob thee, wyll I make also to be robbed.

  • Ps 109:11
    74%

    11 Let the extortioner bryng into his snare all that he hath: and let straungers spoyle his labour.

  • Isa 42:24
    73%

    24 Who gaue Iacob to be troden vnder foote, and Israel to be spoyled? Did not the Lorde? Because we haue sinned against hym, and haue had no delight to walke in his wayes, neither ben obedient vnto his lawe:

  • Prov 24:15
    73%

    15 Laye no priuie wayte (O wicked man) against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.

  • Jer 5:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28 Hereof are they fat and welthy, and are more mischieuous then any other: they minister not the lawe, they make no ende of the fatherlesse cause, yea and they prosper: yet they iudge not the poore according to equitie.

    29 Should I not punishe these thinges saith the Lorde? should not I be auenged of all suche people as these be?

  • Jer 22:3
    73%

    3 Thus the Lord comaundeth: Kepe equitie and righteousnesse, deliuer the oppressed from the power of the violent, do not greeue nor oppresse the straunger, the fatherlesse, nor the widowe, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

  • Ezek 22:29
    73%

    29 The people in the lande vsed wicked extortion and robbery, they vexe the poore and needy, and oppresse the straunger agaynst right.

  • Ps 140:12
    73%

    12 I am sure that God wyll dispatche the cause of the afflicted: and he wyll geue iudgement for the needy.

  • Prov 31:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 Be thou an aduocate for the dumbe, to speake in the cause of all such as be succourlesse in this transitorie worlde.

    9 Open thy mouth, defende the thyng that is lawfull and ryght, and the cause of the poore and helpelesse.

  • Isa 17:14
    73%

    14 At euen beholde there is trouble, and or euer it be mornyng lo it is gone: This is the portion of them that oppresse vs, and the lot of them that robbe vs.

  • Job 20:19
    73%

    19 And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not builded them.

  • Job 24:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 For some men remoue the landemarkes, robbe men of their cattell, and feede of the same:

    3 They driue away the asse of the fatherlesse, and take the wydowes oxe for a pledge:

  • Ps 94:21
    73%

    21 They flocke together agaynst the soule of the ryghteous: and condemne the innocent blood.

  • Mic 2:2
    72%

    2 And they couet fieldes, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen man and his heritage.

  • Exod 22:22-24
    3 verses
    72%

    22 Ye shall trouble no wydowe nor fatherlesse chylde.

    23 If ye shall euyll entreate them, and they crye out vnto me, I wyll surelye heare theyr crye.

    24 And then wyl my wrath waxe hotte, and I wyll kyll you with the sworde, & your wyues shalbe widowes, and your chyldren fatherlesse.

  • Job 24:9
    72%

    9 They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take the pledge from the poore.

  • Prov 22:16
    72%

    16 Who so doth a poore man wrong, to increase his owne riches and geueth vnto the ryche, at the last commeth to pouertie hym selfe.

  • Isa 29:21
    72%

    21 Making a man to sinne in the worde, and that toke him in a snare, whiche reproued them in the open place, and they that haue turned the cause of the righteous to naught.

  • Ps 94:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 They oppresse thy people O God: and they afflict thine heritage.

    6 They murther the wyddowe and the straunger: & put the fatherlesse to death.

  • Isa 1:24
    72%

    24 Therfore saith the Lorde God of hoastes, the mightie one of Israel: Ah I must ease me of mine enemies, and auenge me of mine aduersaries:

  • Zeph 1:13
    72%

    13 Therfore their goodes shalbe spoyled, & their houses layed waste: they shall buylde houses, and not dwell in them, they shall plante vineyardes, but not drinke the wine therof.

  • Ps 34:21
    72%

    21 Malice shal put the vngodly to death: and they that hate the righteous, shalbe brought to naught.

  • Ps 35:10
    72%

    10 All my bones shall say, God who is lyke vnto thee? whiche deliuerest the poore from hym that is to strong for him: yea the poore and him that is in miserie, from him that spoyleth him.

  • Amos 5:11
    72%

    11 Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and ye take from hym burdens of wheate: ye haue buylt houses of hewen stone, but ye shall not dwell in them: ye haue planted pleasaunt vineyardes, but ye shall not drinke wine of them.

  • Ps 79:7
    72%

    7 For they haue deuoured Iacob: and layde waste his dwelling place.

  • Jer 21:12
    72%

    12 O thou house of Dauid, thus saith the Lorde: Minister righteousnesse and that soone, deliuer the oppressed from violent power, or euer my terrible wrath breake out lyke a fire and burne, so that no man may quenche it because of the wickednesse of your imaginations.

  • Jer 18:21
    71%

    21 Therfore, let their children dye of hunger, and let them be oppressed with the sworde: Let their wiues be robbed of their children, and become widowes, let their husbandes be slayne, let their young men be kylled with the sworde in the fielde.

  • Isa 49:24
    71%

    24 Shall the spoyle be taken from the mightie? or the lawfull prisoner from the taker?