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Exodus 22:23

If you bring them trouble, and they cry out to Me, for sure I will hear their cry.

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;
Good News Translation
If you do, I, the Lord , will answer them when they cry out to me for help,
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 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 tempts a woman who has never had a man and is not promised in marriage, and lies with her, he must pay a wedding gift for her to be his wife. 17 If her father will not give her to him, he will pay the wedding gift that is to be paid for women who have never had a man. 18 "Do not allow a woman to live who does witchcraft. 19 Whoever does sex sins with an animal will be put to death. 20 "He who gives a gift in worship to any god other than the Lord alone will be destroyed. 21 Do not do wrong to a stranger or make it hard for him. For you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22 Do not bring trouble to any woman whose husband has died or any child whose parents have died. 23 If you bring them trouble, and they cry out to Me, for sure I will hear their cry. 24 My anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword. Then your wives will lose their husbands. And your children will lose their fathers.

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 speaking, Rebekah came out, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah and Nahor, the brother of Abraham. She had a jar on her shoulder.
Genesis 24:24
She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah and Nahor."
Genesis 24:47
Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?' She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah and Nahor.' And I put the gold objects on her nose and arms.
Genesis 24:51
See, Rebekah is in front of you. Take her and go. Let her be the wife of your boss's son, as the Lord has spoken."
Genesis 24:60
They prayed that good would come to Rebekah, and said to her, "You are our sister. May you become the mother of millions. May your children and all their children's children after them take over the cities of those who hate them."
Genesis 24:67
Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah's tent, and she became his wife. And he loved her. So Isaac found comfort after his mother's death.
Genesis 25:20
Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Syrian.
Genesis 28:2
Get ready, and go to the house of your mother's father Bethuel in Paddan-aram. Take a wife for yourself from the daughters of your mother's brother Laban.
Genesis 28:5
Then Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau's mother.
Romans 9:10
Not only this, but there was Rebecca also. Rebecca gave birth to two sons at the same time. Both of them were sons of 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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