Exodus 22:24
Good News Translation
and I will become angry and kill you in war. Your wives will become widows, and your children will be fatherless.

New Revised Standard Version
my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children orphans.

Contemporary English Version
In fact, I will get so angry that I will kill your men and make widows of their wives and orphans of their children.

New American Bible
My wrath will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword; then your own wives will be widows, and your children orphans.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

my wrath

Job 31:23 For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.

Psalm 69:24 Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

Psalm 76:7 Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee? from that time thy wrath.

Psalm 90:11 Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear

Nahum 1:6 Who can stand before the face of his indignation? and who shall resist in the fierceness of his anger? his indignation is poured out like fire: and the rocks are melted by him.

Romans 2:5-9 But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God: . . .

Hebrews 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

your wives

Job 27:13-15 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty. . . .

Psalm 78:63,64 Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented. . . .

Psalm 109:9 May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Jeremiah 15:8 Their widows are multiplied unto me above the sand of the sea: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young man a spoiler at noonday: I have cast a terror on a sudden upon the cities.

Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle.

Lamentations 5:3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

Luke 6:38 Give: and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.

Context
Laws of Social Responsibility
23If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry: 24And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.25If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor, that dwelleth with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extortioner, nor oppress them with usuries.…
Cross References
Psalm 109:2
O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.

Psalm 109:9
May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Lamentations 5:3
We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

Exodus 22:23
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