Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
In Context
16Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,
Cross References
Psalms 82:3Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.
Proverbs 21:3To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.
Isaiah 1:23Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cometh not in to them.
Jeremiah 22:3Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgement and justice, and deliver him that is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor: and afflict not the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, nor oppress them unjustly: and shed not innocent blood in this place.
Ezekiel 22:7They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.
Daniel 4:27Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to thee, and redeem thou thy sins with alms, and thy iniquities with works of mercy to the poor: perhaps he will forgive thy offences.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:17-21
A Call to Repentance; Repentance and Reformation Urged. ( b. c. 738.) 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 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… Read the whole commentary →