Isaiah 1:17
15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
16 Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
18 “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
- KJV
- Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
- WEB
- Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
- ASV
- learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
- DARBY
- learn to do well: seek judgment, gladden the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.
- BLB
- Learn to do good, seek justice, rebuke the oppressor, bring justice for the fatherless, contend for the widow.”
- ÅB
- Lær å gjøre det gode, legg vinn på det som er rett, vis voldsmannen på rett vei, hjelp den farløse til hans rett, før enkens sak!
- OTB
- Lær å gjøre godt; søk rettferdighet, rett den undertrykte; forsvar de farløse, tal de enkes sak.
- B1930
- Lær å gjøre det gode, legg vinn på det som er rett, vis voldsmannen på rett vei, hjelp den farløse til hans rett, før enkens sak!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Read in contextJeremiah 22:3
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Read in contextPsalms 82:3–4
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
Read in contextProverbs 31:9
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:23
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
Read in contextZechariah 7:9–10
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
Read in contextJeremiah 22:15–16
Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
Read in contextDaniel 4:27
Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”
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