Exodus 22:23 If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.

English Standard Version
If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry,

New American Standard Bible
"If you afflict him at all, and if he does cry out to Me, I will surely hear his cry;

King James Bible
If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If you do mistreat them, they will no doubt cry to Me, and I will certainly hear their cry.

International Standard Version
If you do mistreat them, they'll certainly cry out to me, and I'll immediately hear their cry.

American Standard Version
If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

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

Darby Bible Translation
If thou afflict him in any way, if he cry at all unto me, I will certainly hear his cry;

Young's Literal Translation
if thou dost really afflict him, surely if he at all cry unto Me, I certainly hear his cry;

Cross References

Luke 18:7
And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night to him, though he bear long with them?

James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

Exodus 22:27
For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he cries to me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

Deuteronomy 10:18
He does execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

Deuteronomy 15:9
Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.

Deuteronomy 24:15
At his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.

Job 34:28
So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted.

Job 35:9
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Psalm 10:14
You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it with your hand: the poor commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 10:17
LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

22; 1 - 31 Judicial laws. - The people of God should ever be ready to show mildness and mercy, according to the spirit of these laws. We must answer to God, not only for what we do maliciously, but for what we do heedlessly. Therefore, when we have done harm to our neighbour, we should make restitution, though not compelled by law. Let these scriptures lead our souls to remember, that if the grace of God has indeed appeared to us, then it has taught us, and enabled us so to conduct ourselves by its holy power, that denying ungodliness and wordly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world, Titus 2:12. And the grace of God teaches us, that as the Lord is our portion, there is enough in him to satisfy all the desires of our souls.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. If fire break out, and catch in thorns—This refers to the common practice in the East of setting fire to the dry grass before the fall of the autumnal rains, which prevents the ravages of vermin, and is considered a good preparation of the ground for the next crop. The very parched state of the herbage and the long droughts of summer, make the kindling of a fire an operation often dangerous, and always requiring caution from its liability to spread rapidly.

stacks—or as it is rendered "shocks" (Jud 15:5; Job 5:26), means simply a bundle of loose sheaves.