"Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen."
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Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow! And all the people shall say, Amen.
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow: and all the people shall say, Amen.
Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amen.
`Cursed `is' he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, -- and all the people have said, Amen.