Zechariah 7:10

WEB

¹⁰Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

KJV

¹⁰And oppress^[+] not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

BSB

¹⁰Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’

FBV

¹⁰Don't exploit those who are widowed or fatherless, foreigners or the poor. Don't think up ways of mistreating one other.

Extra References

Jeremiah 5:28

²⁸They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

1 John 3:15

¹⁵Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

Psalms 21:11

¹¹For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

Isaiah 1:16-17

¹⁶Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. ¹⁷Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

Proverbs 22:22-23

²²Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court; ²³for the LORD will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

Psalms 72:4

⁴He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

James 5:4

⁴Behold, 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.

Isaiah 1:23

²³Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Jeremiah 11:19-20

¹⁹But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.” ²⁰But, LORD of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

Amos 5:11-12

¹¹Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine. ¹²For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.