Proverbs 22:23

World English Bible (2000)

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 25:39 : 39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head." David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him as wife.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."
  • Ps 140:12 : 12 I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
  • Prov 23:11 : 11 for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
  • Ps 35:10 : 10 All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?"
  • Jer 51:36 : 36 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
  • Mic 7:9 : 9 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness.
  • Ps 68:5 : 5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 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.
  • Ps 43:1 : 1 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
  • Isa 33:1 : 1 Woe to you who destroy, but you weren't destroyed; and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of betrayal, you will be betrayed.
  • Jer 50:34 : 34 Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Armies is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
  • Ps 35:1 : 1 Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
  • 1 Sam 24:12 : 12 May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you.
  • 1 Sam 24:15 : 15 May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand."
  • Hab 2:8 : 8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

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    22Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

  • Prov 23:11
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    11for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

  • Prov 21:7
    77%

    7The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

  • Isa 10:2
    77%

    2to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

  • Isa 3:13-15
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    76%

    13Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.

    14Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.

    15What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

  • Isa 42:22
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    22But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore them!'

  • Ezek 23:46
    75%

    46For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.

  • Isa 33:1
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    1Woe to you who destroy, but you weren't destroyed; and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of betrayal, you will be betrayed.

  • Exod 23:6
    75%

    6"You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Amos 5:9
    75%

    9who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.

  • Hab 2:8
    74%

    8Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

  • Ps 82:3-4
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    74%

    3"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

    4Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."

  • Isa 5:23
    74%

    23who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

  • Jer 30:16
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    16Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.

  • Ps 109:11
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    11Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

  • Isa 42:24
    73%

    24Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn't Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

  • Prov 24:15
    73%

    15Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:

  • Jer 5:28-29
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    73%

    28They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

    29"Shall I not punish for these things?" says Yahweh. "Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

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    3Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • Ezek 22:29
    73%

    29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

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    12I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

  • Prov 31:8-9
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    8Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

    9Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy."

  • Isa 17:14
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    14At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • Job 20:19
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    19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

  • Job 24:2-3
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    73%

    2There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

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    21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

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    72%

    2They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  • Exod 22:22-24
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    72%

    22"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

    23If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

    24and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

  • Job 24:9
    72%

    9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

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    72%

    16Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

  • Isa 29:21
    72%

    21who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

  • Ps 94:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.

    6They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

  • Isa 1:24
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    24Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies;

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won't inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won't drink their wine.

  • Ps 34:21
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    21Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

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    10All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?"

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

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    7For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

  • Jer 21:12
    72%

    12House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

  • Jer 18:21
    71%

    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

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    71%

    24Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?