Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Context
This verse from Deuteronomy Chapter 27 connects to 10 cross-references. Moses and the elders command Israel to set up plaster-coated stones inscribed with the law at Mount Ebal and build an altar there upon entering the land. Twelve curses are to be pronounced by the Levites with the entire people …
Other Translations
Cursed be he that wresteth the justice due to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
`Cursed <FI>is<Fi> he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, --and all the people have said, Amen.
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.
Cross References
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in …
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many …
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, …
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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.
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
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 …