Proverbs 22:23

Geneva Bible (1560)

For the Lord will defende their cause, and spoyle the soule of those that spoyle them.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 25:39 : 39 Now when Dauid heard, that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the Lord that hath iudged the cause of my rebuke of ye hand of Nabal, and hath kept his seruant from euil: for the Lord hath recompensed the wickednesse of Nabal vpon his owne head. Also Dauid sent to commune with Abigail to take her to his wife.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 Now for the oppression of the needy, and for the sighes of the poore, I will vp, sayeth the Lord, and will set at libertie him, whom the wicked hath snared.
  • Ps 140:12 : 12 I know that the Lord will auenge the afflicted, and iudge the poore.
  • Prov 23:11 : 11 For he that redeemeth them, is mightie: he will defend their cause against thee.
  • Ps 35:10 : 10 All my bones shall say, Lorde, who is like vnto thee, which deliuerest the poore from him, that is too strong for him! yea, the poore and him that is in miserie, from him that spoyleth him!
  • Jer 51:36 : 36 Therefore thus sayth the Lorde, Beholde, I will maintayne thy cause, and take vengeance for thee, and I will drie vp the sea, and drie vp her springes.
  • Mic 7:9 : 9 I will beare the wrath of the Lord because I haue sinned against him, vntill he pleade my cause, and execute iudgement for me: 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, & a Iudge of the widowes, euen God in his holy habitation.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come neere to you to iudgement, and I will be a swift witnesse against the southsayers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that wrongfully keepe backe the hirelings wages, and vexe the widowe, and the fatherlesse, and oppresse the stranger, and feare not me, sayth the Lord of hostes.
  • Ps 43:1 : 1 Ivdge me, O God, and defend my cause against the vnmercifull people: deliuer mee from the deceitfull and wicked man.
  • Isa 33:1 : 1 Woe to thee that spoylest, and wast not spoyled: and doest wickedly, and they did not wickedly against thee: when thou shalt cease to spoyle, thou shalt be spoyled: when thou shalt make an ende of doing wickedly, they shall doe wickedly against thee.
  • Jer 50:34 : 34 But their strong redeemer, whose Name is the Lord of hostes, he shall maintaine their cause, that he may giue rest to the lande, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babel.
  • Ps 35:1 : 1 A Psalme of Dauid. Pleade thou my cause, O Lorde, with them that striue with me: fight thou against them, that fight against me.
  • 1 Sam 24:12 : 12 (24:13) The Lord be iudge betweene thee and me, and the Lord auenge me of thee, & let not mine hand be vpon thee.
  • 1 Sam 24:15 : 15 (24:16) The Lord therfore be iudge, and iudge betweene thee and me, and see, & pleade my cause, and deliuer me out of thine hand.
  • Hab 2:8 : 8 Because thou hast spoyled many nations, all the remnant of the people shal spoyle thee, because of mens blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therein.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 22:22
    82%

    22Robbe not the poore, because hee is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in iudgement.

  • Prov 23:11
    78%

    11For he that redeemeth them, is mightie: he will defend their cause against thee.

  • Prov 21:7
    77%

    7The robberie of the wicked shall destroy them: for they haue refused to execute iudgement.

  • Isa 10:2
    77%

    2To keepe backe ye poore from iudgement, and to take away the iudgement of the poore of my people, that widowes may be their pray, and that they may spoyle the fatherlesse.

  • Isa 3:13-15
    3 verses
    76%

    13The Lorde standeth vp to pleade, yea, hee standeth to iudge the people.

    14The Lord shall enter into iudgement with the Ancients of his people & the princes thereof: for ye haue eaten vp the vineyarde: the spoyle of the poore is in your houses.

    15What haue ye to do, that ye beate my people to pieces, and grinde the faces of the poore, saith the Lord, euen tho Lord of hostes?

  • Isa 42:22
    75%

    22But this people is robbed & spoiled, and shalbe all snared in dungeons, and they shalbe hid in prison houses: they shall be for a pray, and none shall deliuer: a spoile, and none shall say, Restore.

  • Ezek 23:46
    75%

    46Wherefore thus sayth the Lord God, I will bring a multitude vpon them, and will giue them vnto the tumult, and to the spoyle,

  • Isa 33:1
    75%

    1Woe to thee that spoylest, and wast not spoyled: and doest wickedly, and they did not wickedly against thee: when thou shalt cease to spoyle, thou shalt be spoyled: when thou shalt make an ende of doing wickedly, they shall doe wickedly against thee.

  • Exod 23:6
    75%

    6Thou shalt not ouerthrowe the right of thy poore in his sute.

  • Amos 5:9
    75%

    9He strengtheneth the destroyer against the mightie: and the destroyer shal come against the fortresse.

  • Hab 2:8
    74%

    8Because thou hast spoyled many nations, all the remnant of the people shal spoyle thee, because of mens blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therein.

  • Ps 82:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3Doe right to the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the poore and needie.

    4Deliuer the poore and needie: saue them from the hand of the wicked.

  • Isa 5:23
    74%

    23Which iustifie the wicked for a rewarde, and take away the righteousnesse of the righteous from him.

  • Jer 30:16
    74%

    16Therefore all they that deuoure thee, shal be deuoured, & all thine enemies euery one shall goe into captiuitie: and they that spoyle thee, shalbe spoyled, and all they that robbe thee, wil I giue to be robbed.

  • Ps 109:11
    74%

    11Let the extortioner catch al that he hath, and let the strangers spoile his labour.

  • Isa 42:24
    73%

    24Who gaue Iaakob for a spoyle, and Israel to the robbers? Did not ye Lorde, because we haue sinned against him? for they woulde not walke in his waies, neither be obedient vnto his Lawe.

  • Prov 24:15
    73%

    15Laye no waite, O wicked man, against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.

  • Jer 5:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28They are waxen fat and shining: they doe ouerpasse the deedes of the wicked: they execute no iudgement, no not the iudgement of the fatherlesse: yet they prosper, though they execute no iudgement for the poore.

    29Shall I not visite for these things, sayth the Lord? or shall not my soule be auenged on such a nation as this?

  • Jer 22:3
    73%

    3Thus saith the Lorde, Execute ye iudgement and righteousnes, and deliuer the oppressed from the hande of the oppressor, and vexe not the stranger, the fatherlesse, nor the widowe: doe no violence, nor sheade innocent blood in this place.

  • Ezek 22:29
    73%

    29The people of the land haue violently oppressed by spoyling and robbing, and haue vexed the poore and the needy: yea, they haue oppressed the stranger against right.

  • Ps 140:12
    73%

    12I know that the Lord will auenge the afflicted, and iudge the poore.

  • Prov 31:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8Open thy mouth for the domme in the cause of all the children of destruction.

    9Open thy mouth: iudge righteously, and iudge the afflicted, and the poore.

  • Isa 17:14
    73%

    14And loe, in the euening there is trouble: but afore the morning it is gone. This is the portion of them that spoyle vs, and the lot of them that robbe vs.

  • Job 20:19
    73%

    19For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.

  • Job 24:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2Some remoue the land marks, that rob the flockes and feede thereof.

    3They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.

  • Ps 94:21
    73%

    21They gather them together against the soule of the righteous, and condemne the innocent blood.

  • Mic 2:2
    72%

    2And they couet fields, 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%

    22Ye shall not trouble any widowe, nor fatherlesse childe.

    23If thou vexe or trouble such, and so he call and cry vnto me, I will surely heare his cry.

    24Then shal my wrath be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wiues shall be widowes, and your children fatherlesse.

  • Job 24:9
    72%

    9They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.

  • Prov 22:16
    72%

    16Hee that oppresseth the poore to increase him selfe, and giueth vnto the riche, shall surely come to pouertie.

  • Isa 29:21
    72%

    21Which made a man to sinne in ye worde, and tooke him in a snare: which reproued them in the gate, and made the iust to fall without cause.

  • Ps 94:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5They smite downe thy people, O Lorde, and trouble thine heritage.

    6They slay the widowe and the stranger, and murther the fatherlesse.

  • Isa 1:24
    72%

    24Therefore sayth the Lorde God of hostes, the mightie one of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine aduersaries, & auenge me of mine enemies.

  • Zeph 1:13
    72%

    13Therefore their goods shall be spoyled, and their houses waste: they shall also build houses, but not inhabite them, and they shall plant vineyards, but not drinke the wine thereof.

  • Ps 34:21
    72%

    21But malice shal slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous, shall perish.

  • Ps 35:10
    72%

    10All my bones shall say, Lorde, who is like vnto thee, which deliuerest the poore from him, that is too strong for him! yea, the poore and him that is in miserie, from him that spoyleth him!

  • Amos 5:11
    72%

    11Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and yee take from him burdens of wheate, ye haue built houses of hewen stone, but ye shal not dwel in them: ye haue plated pleasant vineyards, but ye shal not drinke wine of them.

  • Ps 79:7
    72%

    7For they haue deuoured Iaakob and made his dwelling place desolate.

  • Jer 21:12
    72%

    12O house of Dauid, thus saith the Lorde, Execute iudgement in the morning, and deliuer the oppressed out of the hande of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire and burne, that none can quench it, because of the wickednes of your workes.

  • Jer 18:21
    71%

    21Therefore, deliuer vp their children to famine, and let them drop away by the force of the sworde, and let their wiues be robbed of their children, and be widowes: and let their husbandes be put to death, and let their yong men be slayne by the sword in the battell.

  • Isa 49:24
    71%

    24Shall the pray be taken from the mightie? Or the iust captiuitie deliuered?