16. He saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. xxxvi. 15. He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. Ps. ix. 18. The needy shall not always be forgotten; the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever. Ixviii. 10. Thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor. Ixix. 33. The Lord heareth the poor. Ixxii. 3. He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.-Ver. 12, 13. He shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. cii. 17. He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. cvii. 41. He setteth the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock. cix. 31. He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul. cxiii. 7. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill. cxxxii. 15. I will satisfy her poor with bread. cxl. 12. The Lord will maintain the right of the poor. Isa. xiv. 30. The first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety. Jer. xx. 13. Sing unto the Lord; praise ye the Lord, for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evil-doers. Luke xvi. 25. Abraham said, Son, remember, that thou in thy life-time receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. James i. 9. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted. ii. 5. Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he hath promised to them that love him? Ps. lxxiv. 21. CLXX. Of the uncharitable to the poor. Deut. xv. 9. Beware of hardness of heart toward thy poor brother. Ch. xxiv. 15. Prov. xi. 26. He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him. xvii. 5. Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker. xxi. 13. Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself and shall not be heard. Ver. 10. 26. xxviii. 27. He that hideth his eyes from the poor, shall have many a curse. Isa. xxxii. 7. The instruments of the churl are evil to destroy the poor. Prov. xxiii. 7. Eat, saith he, but his heart is not with thee. James ii. 15, 16. If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto him, Depart in peace, be you warmed, and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things that be needful, what doth it profit? 1 John iii. 17. Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? THE STRANGER, WIDOW, AND FATHERLESS. CLXXI. Duties toward them, and threatenings against those that oppress them. Exod xxii. 21. Thou shalt not vex a stranger nor oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Ch. xxiii. 9. 12. Lev. xix. 33. Exod. xxii. 22-24. Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword, and your children shall be fatherless. Lev. xix. 10. Thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and the stranger. Deut. xxiv. 20, 21.xxvii. 12. Ver. 34. The stranger that dwelleth with you, shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself. xxiii. 22. When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest; thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger. XXV. 6. Deut. xxiv. 19. Ruth ii. 2, 3. Deut. i. 16. Judge righteously between every man and the stranger. Ch. x. 19. Love the stranger; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. xxiv. 17. Thou shalt not pervert the judg ment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless, nor take a widow's raiment to pledge. Ch. xxvii. 19. Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of the fatherless, and widow: and all the people shall say, Amen. Job xxiv. 3. 9. The wicked drive away the ass of the fatherless, and take the widow's ox for a pledge. They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. (Ver. 21.) Ver. 23, 24. God's eyes are upon their ways: They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. xxix. 12, 13. I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. xxxi. 16, 17. 21, 22. If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail.-If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade.-Ver. 32. The stranger did not lodge in the street, but I opened my door to the traveller. : Ps. xciv. 6. The proud slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.-Ver. 10. He that chastiseth the nations, shall he not correct you? Prov. xxiii. 10, 11. Enter not into the fields of the fatherless: For their Redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause. Isa. i. 17. Judge the fatherless; plead for the widow.-Ver. 23, 24. They judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. Therefore, saith the Lord, I will ease me of mine adversaries. Jer. v. 28, 29. x. 1, 2. Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees.-That widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless. Matt. xxiii. 14. Jer. vii. 6, 7. If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless and the widow; then will I cause you to dwell in this place. Ch. xxii. 3. Zech. vii. 10. Ezek. xxii. 7. In thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger, they vexed the fatherless and widow.-Ver. 15. I will scatter them among the heathen. Ver. 29. 31. xlvii. 22. Give the stranger his inheritance. Ver. 23. Mal. iii. 5. I will be a swift witness against those that oppress the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right. 1 Tim. v. 3. Honour widows that are widows indeed. Ver. 16. If they have widows, let them relieve them. James i. 27. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. See Luke iv. 25. CLXXII. Promises to the stranger, fatherless and widow. Deut. x. 18. The Lord doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger in giving him food and raiment. Ps. x. 14. Thou art the helper of the fatherless. Ver. 18. Ixviii. 5. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widow, is God in his holy habitation. cxlvi. 9. The Lord preserveth the strangers, and relieveth the fatherless and widow. Prov. xv. 25. The Lord will establish the border of the widow. Ezek. xi. 16. Thus saith the Lord God, Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. Jer. xlix. 11. Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me. Hos. xiv. 3. In thee the fatherless findeth mercy. Jer. xxix. 7. Seek the peace of the city, whither I have caused you to be carried away captives; and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. Ps. xxvii. 10. See 1 Kings viii. 43. 2 Chron. vi. 33. NINTH COMMANDMENT. WITNESS-BEARING. CLXXIII. Of witness-bearing; false swearing, &c. Exod. xx. 16. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Deut. v. 20. Matt. xix. 18. Rom. xiii. 9. Numb. xxxv. 30. One witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. Deut. xvii. 6. Deut. xix. 15. One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sinneth; out of the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. Matt. xviii. 16. 2 Cor. xiii. 1. 1 Tim. v. 19. Ver. 16. 19. If a false witness rise up against any man, to testify against him that which is wrong; (Ver. 17, 18.) Then shall ye do unto him, as he thought to have done unto his brother; so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.-Ver. 21. Life shall go for life, eye for eye, &c. Lev. v. 1. If a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness whether he hath seen or known of it, if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity. Prov. vi. 16. 19. These things doth the Lord hate: A false witness that speaketh lies, &c. xiv. 5. A faithful witness will not lie; but a false witness will utter lies. Ver. 25. A true witness delivereth souls, but a deceitful witness speaketh lies. xix. 5. A false witness shall not be unpunished. Ver. 9. xxi. 28. A false witness shall perish. xxiv. 28. Be not a witness against thy neighbour without a cause. See Prov. xii. 17.-xix. 28.-xxv. 18. Matt. xv. 19. Instances: Of false witness given against Naboth, 1 Kings xxi. 7, &c.-Against David, Ps. xxvii. 12.-xxxv. 11.-Against Christ, Matt. xxvi. 60.-Against Stephen, Acts vi. 13. CLXXIV. Lying forbidden; truth commanded. Lev. xix. 11. Ye shall not lie one to another. Zech. viii. 16, 17. Ps. xxxiv. 13. Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips that they speak no guile. 1 Pet. iii. 10. Prov. iv. 24. A froward mouth and perverse lips put far from thee. Eph. iv. 15. Speaking the truth in love, grow up unto Christ. Ver. 25. Putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour. Col. iii. 9. Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man. See Ps. xv. 2. Isa. xxxiii. 15. Prov. xii. 17. 19. CLXXV. Lying abhorred by God and good men. Prov. vi. 16, 17. These things doth the Lord hate: A lying tongue, &c. xii. 22. Lying lips are abomination to the Lord; but they that deal truly are his delight. Job xxvii. 4. Job said, My lips shall not speak wickedness, neither my tongue utter deceit. Ps. ci. 7. David said, He that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight. cxix. 29. Remove from me the way of lying. Ver. 163. I hate and abhor lying. Prov. viii. 7. Wisdom said, My mouth shall speak truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips. xiii. 5. A righteous man hateth lying. thy tongue frameth deceit. Ver. 21. I will reprove thee, saith the Lord. lii. 2-4. Thy tongue deviseth mischief like a sharp razor working deceitfully. Thou lovest evil more than good, and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.Ver. 5. God shall destroy thee for ever. smoother than butter, but war was in his the womb, they go astray speaking lies. Their swords are in their lips. Ver. 12, 13. For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for cursing and lying which they speak, consume them in wrath. Ixii. 4. They delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.Ver. 3. Ye shall be slain all of you. lxiii. 11. The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. cix. 2. They have spoken against me with a lying tongue : let them be condemned. Ver. 7. cxx. 3, 4. What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? Sharp arrows of the mighty with coals of juniper. Prov. x. 18. He that hideth hatred with Isa. Ixiii. 8. My people (saith God) are lying lips is a fool. children that will not lie. CLXXVI. Satan, and his children, are liars. John viii. 44. The devil abode not in the truth; he is a liar, and the father of it. Ver. 45. Acts v. 3. Why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Ghost? See Isa. xxviii. 15. 17.-lix. 3, 4. Jer. xxiii. 14. CLXXVII. Threatenings and prayers against liars. Ps. v. 6. Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing. xxxi. 18. Let lying lips be put to silence, which speak grievous things, proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. xxxvi. 1. There is no fear of God before his eyes. Ver. 3. The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit.-Ver. 12. They are cast down, they shall not arise. Ps. x. 7. 19. Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and xii. 13. The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips. Ch. xvii. 20. Ver. 19. A lying tongue is but for a mo ment. xvii. 7. Lying lips become not a prince. xix. 5. He that speaketh lies shall not escape; he shall perish. Ver. 9. Ver. 22. A poor man is better than a liar. Ver. 1. xxi. 6. Getting treasures by a lying tongue, is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. xxvi. 18, 19. As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death: so is he that Ideceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport? Ver. 23. Lying lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. Ver. 24, 25, 26. 28. Isa. Ivii. 11. Of whom hast thou been afraid, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, saith the Lord? lix. 2, 3. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. Ver. 12-15. xvii. 4. A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips, and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue. Ver. 7. xviii. 6. A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.—Ver. 7. His mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul. xxiv. 2. Their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. Eccl. x. 12. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. Jer. ix. 5. They will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.-Ver. 7. Lam. iii. 61, 62. Thou hast heard the lips Therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts, Be- of those that rise up against me. hold, I will melt them and try them. Matt. xii. 34, 35. Ver. 8, 9. Their tongue is as an arrow shot speak good things? out, and speaketh deceit; one speaketh peace-evil treasure of his ably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the Lord: Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Hos. iv. 1, 2. The Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, they break out.-Ver. 3. Therefore shall the land mourn. 1 Tim. iv. 2. Seducing spirits, speaking lies in hypocrisy. Rev. xxi. 8. Liars shall have their portion in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone. Ver. 27. There shall in no wise enter into heaven any thing that defileth or worketh abomination, or that maketh a lie. xxii. 15. Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. See the death of Ananias and Sapphira, Acts v. CLXXVIII. The words of the wicked, injurious and offensive. Ps. v. 9. There is no faithfulness in their mouth; their throat is an open sepulchre.-Ver. 10. Destroy them, O God. xxii. 7. They shoot out the lip, they shake the head. lix. 7. They belch out with their mouth, swords are in their lips; for who (say they) doth hear us?-Ver. 8. Thou, O God, shalt laugh at them. Ps. lxiv. 3.-lxix. 26. cxl. 3. They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips.-Ver. 9. Let the mischief of their own lips cover them. Prov. xii. 18. There is that speaketh like the piercing of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health. xvi. 27. An ungodly man diggeth up evil, and in his lips there is as a burning fire. Ver. 30. How can ye, being evil, An evil man out of the heart, bringeth forth evil things.-Ver. 37. By thy words thou shalt be condemned. xv. 18. The things that proceed ont of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and defile the man. 1 Cor. xv. 33. Evil communications corrupt good manners. James iii. 5, 6. The tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity; it defileth the whole body. Ver. 8, 9, 10. 2 Pet. ii. 12. These, as natural brute beasts, speak evil of the things they understand not. God. Jude 14, 15. The Lord cometh with CLXXX. Evil speaking. Ps. xii. 3, 4. The Lord shall cut off the tongue that speaketh proud things: who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own, who is Lord over us? xli. 5. My enemies speak evil of me. Ver. 6. 1. 19. Thou givest thy mouth to evil.-Ver. 21. I will reprove thee, saith God. Eph. iv. 31. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. Tit. iii. 2. Speak evil of no man. Be not brawlers. 1 Pet. iii. 9. James iv. 11. Speak not evil one of another. 1 Pet. ii. 1, 2. Laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and evil speaking; as new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the word. iii. 10. He that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil. Ps. xxxiv. 13. See Ps. cxl. 11, TALKATIVENESS. CLXXXI. Talkativeness; rashness with the tongue. Job xi. 2. Should a man of much talk be justified? xlii. 3. Job said, Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. Ps. cvi. 33. They provoked Moses's spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips. Prov. x. 8. A prating fool shall fall - Ver. 19. In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin, but he that refraineth his lips is wise. Job xiii. 5. xiii. 3. He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life; but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction. xiv. 23. The talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. xvii. 27. He that hath knowledge spareth his words. Job xiii. 5. Ver. 28. Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is accounted wise. xviii. 13. He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame to him. xxi. 23. Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soul from troubles. xxix. 11. A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.-Ver. 20. Seest thou a man hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him. Eccl. iii. 7. There is a time to keep silence, and a time to speak. v. 2, 3. Be not rash with thy mouth. A fool's voice is known by multitude of words. x. 14. A fool is full of words. Amos v. 13. The prudent shall keep silence in the evil time. Mic. vii. 5. Keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. James i. 19. Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak. Ver. 26. If any man among you seemeth to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, that man's religion is vain. FLATTERY. CLXXXII. Flattery. Job xvii. 5. He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. xxxii. 21, 22. Let me not accept any man's person, neither give flattering titles to men. (1 Thess. ii. 5.) In so doing my Maker would soon take me away. Ps. v. 9. They flatter with their tongues.— Ver. 10. Destroy them, O God. Ps. xli. 6. xii. 2. With flattering lips and a double heart they do speak.-Ver. 3. The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips. lxxviii. 36, 37. They did flatter God with their mouth, and lied unto him. For their heart was not right with him. Isa. xxix. 13. Prov. xx. 19. Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips. xxvi. 28. A flattering mouth worketh ruin. xxix. 5. A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet. See Prov. ii. 16.-vi. 24.-vii. 21.-xxviii. 23. Ezek. xii. 24. Dan. xi. 21. 32. 34. TALE-BEARING. CLXXXIII. Tale-bearing. Lev. xix. 16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people. Prov. xi. 13. A tale-bearer revealeth secrets, but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter. xvii. 9. He that covereth a transgression seeketh love, but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. xviii. 8. The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. Ch. xxvi. 22. xx. 19. He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips. xxvi. 20. Where there is no tale-bearer the strife ceaseth. WHISPERING. CLXXXIV. Whispering. Ps. xli. 7. All that hate me, whisper together against me. Prov. xvi. 28. A whisperer separateth chief friends. Rom. i. 29. They [the wicked] are full of envy, murder, debate; whisperers. 2 Cor. xii. 20. I fear lest there be among you whisperings, swellings, &c. BACKBITING. CLXXXV. Backbiting. Ps. xv. 1. Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?-Ver. 3. He that backbiteth not with his tongue. Prov. xxv. 23. An angry countenance driveth away a backbiting tongue. Rom. i. 28. The wicked have a reprobate mind. Ver. 29. Filled with all unrighteousness-Ver. 30. Backbiters, &c. See 2 Cor. xii. 20. SLANDERING, &c. CLXXXVI. Slandering, &c. Ps. ci. 5. Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off. Prov. x. 18. He that uttereth a slander is a fool. Ps. xxxi. 13. I have heard the slander o many, while they took counsel against me. |