23If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: …
And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-24)Here is, I. A law that he who debauched a young woman should be obliged to marry her, Exod. 22:16 , 17 . If she was betrothed to another, it was death to debauch her ( Deut. 22:23 , 24 ); but the law here mentioned respects her as single. But, if the father refused her to him, he was to give satisfaction in money for the injury and disgrace he had done her. This law puts an honour upon marriage an…
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