Exodus 22:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְחָרָ֣ה אַפִּ֔י וְהָרַגְתִּ֥י אֶתְכֶ֖ם בֶּחָ֑רֶב וְהָי֤וּ נְשֵׁיכֶם֙ אַלְמָנ֔וֹת וּבְנֵיכֶ֖ם יְתֹמִֽים׃

Transliteration

And wĕḥārâ ʾappî, and wĕhāragtî you with ḥāreb, and wĕhāyû nĕšêkem ʾalmānôt and bĕnêkem yĕtōmîm.

Grammar Details

• *wĕḥārâ*: qal perfect with waw consecutive, 3rd masculine singular, 'and it will burn'
• *ʾappî*: masculine singular noun with 1st common singular suffix, 'my anger'
• *wĕhāragtî*: qal perfect with waw consecutive, 1st common singular, 'and I will kill'
• *ḥāreb*: feminine singular noun, 'sword'
• *wĕhāyû*: qal perfect with waw consecutive, 3rd common plural, 'and they will be'
• *nĕšêkem*: feminine plural noun with 2nd masculine plural suffix, 'your wives'
• *ʾalmānôt*: feminine plural noun, 'widows'
• *bĕnêkem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd masculine plural suffix, 'your sons'
• *yĕtōmîm*: masculine plural noun, 'orphans/fatherless'

Word Meanings

• *wĕḥārâ ʾappî*: my anger will burn/I will become angry
• *wĕhāragtî*: I will kill/slay/put to death

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Yf ye shall trouble the: they shall crye vnto me, ad I wyll surely heare their crye

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Yf thou shalt trouble them, they shall crie vnto me, and I shall heare their crye:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

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

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

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

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  if thou dost really afflict him, surely if he at all cry unto Me, I certainly hear his cry;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

• 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;

• World English Bible (2000)

  If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry,

Referenced Verses

• Luke 18:7 : 7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, who cry day and night to him, though he bears long with them?
• Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
• Ps 18:6 : 6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice from his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
• Deut 15:9 : 9 Beware that there is not a wicked thought in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,' and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cries to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.
• Job 34:28 : 28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to Him, and He hears the cry of the afflicted.
• Job 35:9 : 9 Because of the multitude of oppressions, they make the oppressed cry: they cry out by reason of the power of the mighty.
• Ps 10:17-18 : 17 LORD, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will prepare their heart; You will cause Your ear to hear, 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may oppress no more.
• Ps 145:19 : 19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him; he also will hear their cry and will save them.
• Ps 146:7-9 : 7 Who executes judgment for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners: 8 The LORD opens the eyes of the blind; the LORD raises those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous: 9 The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
• Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Do not rob the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate; 23 For the LORD will plead their cause and plunder the soul of those who plunder them.
• Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Do not remove the ancient landmark, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless: 11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
• Deut 24:15 : 15 You shall give him his wages on the same day, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.
• Job 31:38-39 : 38 If my land cries against me, or its furrows likewise complain; 39 If I have eaten its fruits without payment, or caused the owners to lose their life;
• Ps 140:12 : 12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.