Job 22:9
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Notas al pie
- 22.9 Gk Syr Tg Vg: Heb were crushed
Job 24:21
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Notas al pie
- 24.21 Gk Tg: Heb feed on or associate with
Job 24:3
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3 They drive away the donkey of the orphan;
they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.(A)
Ezekiel 22:7
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7 Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you.(A)
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Isaiah 10:2
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2 to turn aside the needy from justice
and to rob the poor of my people of their right,
to make widows their spoil
and to plunder orphans!(A)
Job 31:21
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21 if I have raised my hand against the orphan
because I saw I had supporters at the gate;(A)
Luke 18:3-5
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3 In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my accuser.’ 4 For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.’ ”[a]
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- 18.5 Or so that she may not finally come and slap me in the face
Malachi 3:5
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5 Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.(A)
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Ezekiel 30:22
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22 Therefore thus says the Lord God: I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, both the strong arm and the one that was broken, and I will make the sword fall from his hand.(A)
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Isaiah 1:23
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23 Your princes are rebels
and companions of thieves.
Everyone loves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
They do not defend the orphan,
and the widow’s cause does not come before them.(A)
Isaiah 1:17
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17 learn to do good;
seek justice;
rescue the oppressed;
defend the orphan;
plead for the widow.(A)
Psalm 94:6
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6 They kill the widow and the stranger;
they murder the orphan,
Psalm 37:17
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17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,
but the Lord upholds the righteous.(A)
Psalm 10:15
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15 Break the arm of the wicked and evildoers;
seek out their wickedness until you find none.(A)
Job 31:16-18
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16 “If I have withheld anything that the poor desired
or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail(A)
17 or have eaten my morsel alone
and the orphan has not eaten from it—(B)
18 for from my youth I reared the orphan[a] like a father,
and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow[b]—
Job 29:12-13
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12 because I delivered the poor who cried
and the orphan who had no helper.(A)
13 The blessing of the wretched came upon me,
and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.(B)
Deuteronomy 27:19
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19 “ ‘Cursed be anyone who deprives an alien, an orphan, or a widow of justice.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’(A)
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Exodus 22:21-24
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21 “You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.(A) 22 You shall not abuse any widow or orphan.(B) 23 If you do abuse them, when they cry out to me, I will surely heed their cry;(C) 24 my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children orphans.(D)
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