Exodus 22:23
Good News Translation
If you do, I, the LORD, will answer them when they cry out to me for help,

New Revised Standard Version
If you do abuse them, when they cry out to me, I will surely heed their cry;

Contemporary English Version
If you do, they will beg for my help, and I will come to their rescue.

New American Bible
If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me, I will surely listen to their cry.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry:

they cry at all

Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin unto thee.

Deuteronomy 24:15 But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin.

Job 31:38,39 If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn: . . .

Job 35:9 By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.

Luke 18:7 And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night? And will he have patience in their regard?

I will surely

Job 34:28 So that they caused the cry of the needy to come to him, and he heard the voice of the poor.

Psalm 10:17,18 The Lord hath heard the desire of the poor: thy ear hath heard the preparation of their heart. . . .

Psalm 18:6 In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.

Psalm 140:12 I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.

Psalm 145:19 He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear their prayer, and save them.

Psalm 146:7-9 Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered: . . .

Proverbs 22:22,23 Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate: . . .

Proverbs 23:10,11 Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless: . . .

James 5:4 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Context
Laws of Social Responsibility
22You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan. 23If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry:24And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.…
Cross References
Luke 18:7
And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night? And will he have patience in their regard?

James 5:4
Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Exodus 22:27
For that same is the only thing, wherewith he is covered, the clothing of his body, neither hath he any other to sleep in: if he cry to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.

Deuteronomy 10:18
He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.

Deuteronomy 15:9
Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin unto thee.

Deuteronomy 24:15
But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin.

Job 34:28
So that they caused the cry of the needy to come to him, and he heard the voice of the poor.

Job 35:9
By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.

Psalm 10:14
Thou seest it, for thou considerest labour and sorrow: that thou mayst deliver them into thy hands. To thee is the poor man left: thou wilt be a helper to the orphan.

Psalm 10:17
The Lord hath heard the desire of the poor: thy ear hath heard the preparation of their heart.

Psalm 18:6
In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.

Psalm 68:5
Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place:

Exodus 22:22
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