Zechariah 7:10
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Context
This verse from Zechariah Chapter 7 connects to 10 cross-references. A delegation asks whether to continue the fasts commemorating Jerusalem's fall. God replies with a question: were those fasts really for him? He calls for genuine justice, kindness, and mercy — not oppressing widows, orphans, strangers, and the poor. The …
Other Translations
and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.
And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart.
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.
Cross References
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the …
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for …
Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and …
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, …
But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance …
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that …
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the …
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.