17 For the Lord your God is God of gods(A) and Lord of lords,(B) the great God, mighty and awesome,(C) who shows no partiality(D) and accepts no bribes.(E) 18 He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow,(F) and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.(G) 19 And you are to love(H) those who are foreigners,(I) for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.(J)

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19 When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it.(A) Leave it for the foreigner,(B) the fatherless and the widow,(C) so that the Lord your God may bless(D) you in all the work of your hands. 20 When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time.(E) Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow. 21 When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow.

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Woes and Judgments

Woe(A) to you who add house to house
    and join field to field(B)
till no space is left
    and you live alone in the land.

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“Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the people of Israel upon yourself.[a] You are to bear their sin for the number of days you lie on your side.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 4:4 Or upon your side

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