Exodus 22:22-24

Laws About Social Justice

²² _p You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. ²³ If you do mistreat them, and they _q cry out to me, I will surely _r hear their cry, ²⁴ and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and _s your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 24:17
   You shall not pervert the justice due to the so...
   Deuteronomy 27:19
   "'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due...
   Psalms 94:6
   They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murd...
   Isaiah 1:17
   Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppress...
   Isaiah 1:23
   Your princes are rebels and companions of thiev...
   Isaiah 10:2
   To turn aside the needy from justice and to rob...
   Ezekiel 22:7
   Father and mother are treated with contempt in ...
   Zechariah 7:10
   Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the s...
   James 1:27
   Religion that is pure and undefiled before God,...
   
2. Cross References
   Job 34:28
   So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted -
   Luke 18:7
   And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
   
3. Cross References
   Psalms 18:6
   In my distress I called upon the Lord ; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
   Psalms 145:19
   He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.
   James 5:4
   Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
   
4. Cross References
   Psalms 109:9
   May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!
   Lamentations 5:3
   We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.