Nehemiah 5:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and my heart reigneth over me, and I strive with the freemen, and with the prefects, and say to them, `Usury one upon another ye are exacting;' and I set against them a great assembly,

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  • Exod 22:25 : 25 `If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;
  • Lev 25:36 : 36 thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;
  • Deut 23:19-20 : 19 `Thou dost not lend in usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury. 20 To a stranger thou mayest lend in usury, and to thy brother thou dost not lend in usury, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in every putting forth of thy hand on the land whither thou goest in to possess it.
  • Deut 24:10-13 : 10 `When thou liftest up on thy brother a debt of anything, thou dost not go in unto his house to obtain his pledge; 11 at the outside thou dost stand, and the man on whom thou art lifting `it' up is bringing out unto thee the pledge at the outside. 12 `And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge; 13 thou dost certainly give back to him the pledge at the going in of the sun, and he hath lain down in his own raiment, and hath blessed thee; and to thee it is righteousness before Jehovah thy God.
  • 2 Chr 19:6-7 : 6 and saith unto the judges, `See what ye are doing -- for not for man do ye judge, but for Jehovah, who `is' with you in the matter of judgment; 7 and now, let fear of Jehovah be upon you, observe and do, for there is not with Jehovah our God perverseness, and acceptance of faces, and taking of a bribe.'
  • Deut 15:2-3 : 2 and this `is' the matter of the release: Every owner of a loan `is' to release his hand which he doth lift up against his neighbour, he doth not exact of his neighbour and of his brother, but hath proclaimed a release to Jehovah; 3 of the stranger thou mayest exact, and that which is thine with thy brother doth thy hand release;
  • Lev 19:15 : 15 `Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.
  • Ps 15:5 : 5 His silver he hath not given in usury, And a bribe against the innocent Hath not taken; Whoso is doing these is not moved to the age!
  • Ezek 22:12 : 12 A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!
  • Ezek 45:9 : 9 `Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you -- princes of Israel; violence and spoil turn aside, and judgment and righteousness do; lift up your exactions from off My people -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
  • Matt 18:17 : 17 `And if he may not hear them, say `it' to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.
  • 2 Cor 5:16 : 16 So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;
  • Gal 2:11 : 11 And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy,
  • 1 Tim 5:20 : 20 Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;
  • Titus 2:15 : 15 these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!
  • Ps 27:8 : 8 To Thee said my heart `They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'
  • Ps 82:1-4 : 1 -- A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge. 2 Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah. 3 Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous. 4 Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.
  • Prov 27:5 : 5 Better `is' open reproof than hidden love.
  • 2 Chr 28:9-9 : 9 And there hath been there a prophet of Jehovah (Oded `is' his name), and he goeth out before the host that hath come in to Samaria, and saith to them, `Lo, in the fury of Jehovah God of your fathers against Judah, He hath given them into your hand, and ye slay among them in rage -- unto the heavens it hath come; 10 and now, sons of Judah and Jerusalem ye are saying to subdue for men-servants and for maid-servants to you; but are there not with you causes of guilt before Jehovah your God? 11 and now, hear me, and send back the captives whom ye have taken captive of your brethren, for the heat of the anger of Jehovah `is' upon you.' 12 And certain of the heads of the sons of Ephraim (Azariah son of Johanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai), rise up against those coming in from the host, 13 and say to them, `Ye do not bring in the captives hither, for, to guilt against Jehovah on us, ye are saying to add unto our sin and unto our guilt? for abundant `is' the guilt we have, and the fierceness of anger on Israel.'
  • Ps 4:4 : 4 `Tremble ye, and do not sin;' Say ye `thus' in your heart on your bed, And be ye silent. Selah.
  • Ps 15:1 : 1 A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who doth sojourn in Thy tent? Who doth dwell in Thy holy hill?

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