Exodus 22:23
If you hurt them they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si læseritis eos, vociferabuntur ad me, et ego audiam clamorem eorum :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐὰν δὲ κακίᾳ κακώσητε αὐτοὺς καὶ κεκράξαντες καταβοήσωσι πρὸς μέ, ἀκοῇ εἰσακούσομαι τῆς φωνῆς αὐτῶν·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Exodus 22:22
- אִם עַנֵּ֥ה תְעַנֶּ֖ה אֹת֑וֹ כִּ֣י אִם צָעֹ֤ק יִצְעַק֙ אֵלַ֔י שָׁמֹ֥עַ אֶשְׁמַ֖ע צַעֲקָתֽוֹ
The Fathers on this verse
St Cyprian Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, Testimony CXIII
In Solomon: “Be merciful to the orphans as a father, and as a husband to their mother; and thou shalt be the son of the Highest if thou shalt obey.” Also in Exodus: “Ye shall not afflict any widow and orphan. But if ye afflict them, and they cry out and call unto me, I will hear their cryings, and will be angry in mind against you; and I will destroy you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children orphans.” Also in Isaiah: “Judge for the fatherless, and justify the widow; and come let us reason, saith the Lord.” Also in Job: “I have preserved the poor man from the hand of the mighty, and I have helped the fatherless who had no helper: the mouth of the widow hath blessed me.” Also in the sixty-seventh Psalm: “The Father of the orphans, and the Judge of the widows.”