If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
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If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
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If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
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(22-22) If thou afflict them in any wise — for if they cry at all unto Me, I will surely hear their cry —
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Passages linked to Exodus 22:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 34:28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
- Psalms 10:17-18 Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear, to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
- Psalms 18:6 In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
- Luke 18:7 Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
- Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there not be 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 cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
- Job 35:9 “By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
- James 5:4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
- Psalms 145:19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
- Psalms 146:7-9 who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners. Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous. Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
- Deuteronomy 24:15 In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
- Job 31:38-39 If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together; if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
- Psalms 140:12 I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
- Proverbs 22:22-23 Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court; for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
- Proverbs 23:10-11 Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless, for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 22:23 If thou afflict them in any wise,…
Exo 22:23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
Ver. 23. And they cry at all unto me.] A vine whose root is uncovered thrives not: so a widow, whose covering of eyes is taken away, joys not. In Hebrew she is called Almanach, from Alam, to be dumb; because she hath none to speak for her, {a} But if she call and cry to God, he will speak for her in the hearts of her oppressors.
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{a} Mercer, in Proverb.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain If thou lend money to any of my people…
If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, Such only need to borrow money, and to whom it should be freely lent, when it may be to the good of the borrower, and not any injury to the lender: this law, according to the Jewish writers, only respects Israelites, and not Gentiles; agreeably to which is Jarchi's note,"if thou lend, that is, not to a Gentile; and to which of my people? the poor, and to which of the poor? that is with thee:"
thou shalt not be to him as an usurer; that will not lend without usury, nor without an exorbitant interest, and deals very hardly with the borrower if he is not punctual in the payment of it; the Israelites were not only not to be usurers, but they were not to be like them; they were not to require anything for lending a poor man a little money; as not any settled interest, so neither were they to take any previous gift or reward later, see Luk 6:34.
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neither shalt thou lay upon him usury; or oblige him to give interest for money borrowed: it is in the plural, number, "neither shall ye lay"; and Aben Ezra observes, that the lender, scribe, and witness, all transgress this law; that is, when a man lends money on interest, and a bond is made by the scribe for it, and this signed by witnesses, all are guilty of the breach of it: yea, some Jewish writers (h) say, not only those, but whoever is a surety or bondsman for the payment, and even the borrower himself; see Gill on Psa 15:5.
(h) Misn. Bava Metzia, c. 5. sect. 11. Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 23. If thou afflict him in any wise, and…
23. If thou afflict him in any wise, and he cry at all unto me, I will surely hear his cry] so the Heb., making it probable that vv. 21b, 22 (which are moreover distinguished from the context by the plur. ye), 24 (which will naturally go with v. 22) are an addition to the original text. It is true, there are not unfrequent cases in poetry, when a class of persons has been spoken of, of their being referred to individually by a sing. pronoun (see G.-K. § 145m; and the passages collected in the writer’s Jeremiah, p. 362); but this is very unusual in prose: such passages as Gen_2:19, Lev_21:7; Lev_25:31, Deu_7:3, Jos_24:7, Jdg_12:5; Jdg_21:6, are hardly parallel to the present one.
cry … unto me] cf. Deu_15:9; Deu_24:15; also Jas_5:4.
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23, 24. If the Israelite does this, Jehovah will treat him with a just retribution.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (23) If thou afflict them in any wise, and…
(23) If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me.—Rather, If thou afflict them sore, and they cry earnestly unto me. On the transgression of the laws against oppression by the later Israelites, see Jer_5:28; Jer_7:6; Jer_22:3; Jer_22:17; Zech. 7:20; Mal_3:5; Mat_23:14, &c. The sword of the Babylonians and the sword of the Romans avenged the sufferers, according to the prophecy of Exo_22:24.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And they cry at all unto me Rather, Surely,…
And they cry at all unto me Rather, Surely, if they cry unto me." Compare Gen_31:42.
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