Lending

Whoso is lending <FI>to<Fi> Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

to him who is asking of thee be giving, and him who is willing to borrow from thee thou mayest not turn away.

and if ye lend <FI>to those<Fi> of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace have ye? for also the sinful lend to sinners--that they may receive again as much.

Good <FI>is<Fi> the man--gracious and lending, He sustaineth his matters in judgment.

The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant <FI>is<Fi> the borrower to the lender.

All the day he is gracious and lending, And his seed <FI>is<Fi> for a blessing.

Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

In usury he hath given, and increase taken, And he liveth: he doth not live, All these abominations he hath done, He doth surely die, his blood is on him.

And it hath been--as a people so a priest, As the servant so his master, As the maid-servant so her mistress, As the buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the usurer so he who is lifting <FI>it<Fi> on himself.

`If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury; — read the full passage →

`And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee; — read the full passage →

By David. Do not fret because of evil doers, Be not envious against doers of iniquity, — read the full passage →

for thou dost certainly open thy hand to him, and dost certainly lend him sufficient for his lack which he lacketh. — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not lend in usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury. — read the full passage →

`If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;

A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who doth sojourn in Thy tent? Who doth dwell in Thy holy hill? — read the full passage →

and also I have caused him to be asked for Jehovah, all the days that he hath lived--he is asked for Jehovah;' and he boweth himself there before Jehovah.

And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brethren the Jews, — read the full passage →

`And God speaketh all these words, saying, — read the full passage →