Jeremiah 22:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Execute ye, &c. See note on Jeremiah 7:5.

judgment and righteousness. Figure of speech Hendiadys. judgment, yea, righteous judgment.

spoiled. robbed.

no. nor. neither. Note the Figure of speech Paradiastole.

stranger. sojourner.

fatherless, nor the widow. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), for all afflicted ones.

innocent blood. See note on Jeremiah 7:6.

Jeremiah 22:3

3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.