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Good News Translation

Exodus 22:23

If you do, I, the Lord , will answer them when they cry out to me for help,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Oppression;   Orphan;   Prayer;   Widow;   The Topic Concordance - Affliction;   God;   Grace;   Hearing;   Wrath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fatherless;   Widows;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Theft;   Widow;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Child;   Ethics;   Freedom;   Justice;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Hospitality;   Law;   Widow;   Woman;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Canaan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Loan;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Ethics;   Hexateuch;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sin;   Ten Commandments;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Israel, Israelite;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Testament;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Covenant, the Book of the;   Fatherless;   Leviticus;   Poor;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anger;   Charity and Charitable Institutions;   Judaism;   Magic;   Orphan;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
King James Version
If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
Lexham English Bible
If you indeed afflict him, yes, if he cries out at all to me, I will certainly hear his cry of distress.
New Century Version
If you do, and they cry out to me for help, I certainly will hear their cry.
New English Translation
If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry,
Amplified Bible
"If you harm or oppress them in any way, and they cry at all to Me [for help], I will most certainly hear their cry;
New American Standard Bible
"If you oppress him at all, and if he does cry out to Me, I will assuredly hear his cry;
Geneva Bible (1587)
If thou vexe or trouble such, and so he call and cry vnto me, I will surely heare his cry.
Legacy Standard Bible
And if you indeed afflict him, and if he earnestly cries out to Me, I will surely hear his cry;
Contemporary English Version
If you do, they will beg for my help, and I will come to their rescue.
Complete Jewish Bible
My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword — your own wives will be widows and your own children fatherless.
Darby Translation
If thou afflict him in any way, if he cry at all unto me, I will certainly hear his cry;
Easy-to-Read Version
If you do anything wrong to these widows or orphans, I will know it. I will hear about their suffering.
English Standard Version
If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry,
George Lamsa Translation
If you harm them, and they pray before me, I will surely hear their prayer;
Christian Standard Bible®
If you do mistreat them, they will no doubt cry to me, and I will certainly hear their cry.
Literal Translation
If you afflict him, if he at all cries to Me, hearing I will hear his cry,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf thou shalt trouble them, they shall crie vnto me, and I shall heare their crye:
American Standard Version
If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
Bible in Basic English
If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If ye shall euyll entreate them, and they crye out vnto me, I wyll surelye heare theyr crye.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
My wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
King James Version (1611)
If thou afflict them in any wise, and they crie at all vnto mee, I will surely heare their crie.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if ye should afflict them by ill-treatment, and they should cry aloud to me, I will surely hear their voice.
English Revised Version
If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
Berean Standard Bible
If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If ye hirten hem, thei schulen crye to me, and Y schal here the cry of hem,
Young's Literal Translation
if thou dost really afflict him, surely if he at all cry unto Me, I certainly hear his cry;
Update Bible Version
If you afflict him at all, and he cries at all to me, I will surely hear his cry;
Webster's Bible Translation
If thou shalt afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry:
World English Bible
If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
New King James Version
If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry;
New Living Translation
If you exploit them in any way and they cry out to me, then I will certainly hear their cry.
New Life Bible
If you bring them trouble, and they cry out to Me, for sure I will hear their cry.
New Revised Standard
If you do abuse them, when they cry out to me, I will surely heed their cry;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
if thou, do humiliate, him, when he in anywise crieth out unto me, I will, surely hear, his outcry:
Douay-Rheims Bible
If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry:
Revised Standard Version
If you do afflict them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If you afflict him at all, and if he does cry out to Me, I will surely hear his cry;

Contextual Overview

16 "If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, he must pay the bride price for her and marry her. 17 But if her father refuses to let him marry her, he must pay the father a sum of money equal to the bride price for a virgin. 18 "Put to death any woman who practices magic. 19 "Put to death any man who has sexual relations with an animal. 20 "Condemn to death anyone who offers sacrifices to any god except to me, the Lord . 21 "Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner; remember that you were foreigners in Egypt. 22 Do not mistreat any widow or orphan. 23 If you do, I, the Lord , will answer them when they cry out to me for help, 24 and I will become angry and kill you in war. Your wives will become widows, and your children will be fatherless.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they cry at all: Deuteronomy 15:9, Deuteronomy 24:15, Job 31:38, Job 31:39, Job 35:9, Luke 18:7

I will surely: Job 34:28, Psalms 10:17, Psalms 10:18, Psalms 18:6, Psalms 140:12, Psalms 145:19, Psalms 146:7-9, Proverbs 22:22, Proverbs 22:23, Proverbs 23:10, Proverbs 23:11, James 5:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:17 - heard Exodus 3:7 - I have Exodus 3:8 - Canaanites

Cross-References

Genesis 24:15
Before he had finished praying, Rebecca arrived with a water jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, who was the son of Abraham's brother Nahor and his wife Milcah.
Genesis 24:24
"My father is Bethuel son of Nahor and Milcah," she answered.
Genesis 24:47
I asked her, ‘Who is your father?' And she answered, ‘My father is Bethuel son of Nahor and Milcah.' Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms.
Genesis 24:51
Here is Rebecca; take her and go. Let her become the wife of your master's son, as the Lord himself has said."
Genesis 24:60
And they gave Rebecca their blessing in these words: "May you, sister, become the mother of millions! May your descendants conquer the cities of their enemies!"
Genesis 24:67
Then Isaac brought Rebecca into the tent that his mother Sarah had lived in, and she became his wife. Isaac loved Rebecca, and so he was comforted for the loss of his mother.
Genesis 25:20
Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebecca, the daughter of Bethuel (an Aramean from Mesopotamia) and sister of Laban.
Genesis 28:2
Go instead to Mesopotamia, to the home of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of the young women there, one of your uncle Laban's daughters.
Genesis 28:5
Isaac sent Jacob away to Mesopotamia, to Laban, who was the son of Bethuel the Aramean and the brother of Rebecca, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Romans 9:10
And this is not all. For Rebecca's two sons had the same father, our ancestor Isaac.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If thou afflict them in any wise,..... In any way, or by any means whatever; their minds, by reproaches, censures, insults, and their bodies by stripes, false imprisonment, c. and in their substance, by withholding from them what belongs to them, taking what they have, or cheating and defrauding them in any respect or, "in afflicting afflict them" e; afflict them much, and continue to do so:

and they cry at all unto me; in prayer, as the Targum of Jonathan; or, "in crying cry" f; cry vehemently, or importunately, and with constancy, or rather, cry ever so little:

I will surely hear their cry; the voice of their prayer, as the same Targum; or, "in hearing I will hear" g; will certainly take notice of their cries, and return an answer to them, by appearing on their side, and avenging their injuries; for God is the Father of the fatherless, and the husband of the widow, and the Judge of them both: the manner of speaking or form of expression is the same in all these clauses, the words being doubled.

e ענה תענה "affligendo afflixeris", Pagninus, Piscator, Ainsworth, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius. f צעק יצעק "clamando clamaverit", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Ainsworth. g שמע אשמע "audiendo audiam", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Ainsworth.


 
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