Trouvé 95 Résultats pour: rights of the widow
If you see oppression of the poor, and violation of rights and justice in the realm, do not be shocked by the fact, for the high official has another higher than he watching him and above these are others higher still--. (Ecclesiastes 5, 7)
Let us oppress the needy just man; let us neither spare the widow nor revere the old man for his hair grown white with time. (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 10)
Yet these, after welcoming them with festivities, oppressed with awful toils those who now shared with them the same rights. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 16)
He is not deaf to the wail of the orphan, nor to the widow when she pours out her complaint; (Ecclesiasticus 35, 14)
The LORD forgave him his sins and exalted his strength forever; He conferred on him the rights of royalty and established his throne in Israel. (Ecclesiasticus 47, 11)
learn to do good. Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, hear the orphan's plea, defend the widow. (Isaiah 1, 17)
Your princes are rebels and comrades of thieves; Each one of them loves a bribe and looks for gifts. The fatherless they defend not, and the widow's plea does not reach them. (Isaiah 1, 23)
To those who acquit the guilty for bribes, and deprive the just man of his rights! (Isaiah 5, 23)
Depriving the needy of judgment and robbing my people's poor of their rights, Making widows their plunder, and orphans their prey! (Isaiah 10, 2)
Now hear this, voluptuous one, enthroned securely, Saying to yourself, "I, and no one else! I shall never be a widow, or suffer the loss of my children"-- (Isaiah 47, 8)
if you no longer oppress the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow; if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place, or follow strange gods to your own harm, (Jeremiah 7, 6)
Thus says the LORD: Do what is right and just. Rescue the victim from the hand of his oppressor. Do not wrong or oppress the resident alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place. (Jeremiah 22, 3)
