Isaiah 1:17
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good 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 hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Read in contextJeremiah 22:3
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.
Read in contextPsalms 82:3–4
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Read in contextProverbs 31:9
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:23
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Read in contextZechariah 7:9–10
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
Read in contextJeremiah 22:15–16
Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
Read in contextDaniel 4:27
Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
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