Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
In Context
16Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes, cease to do evil;
Cross References
Psalms 82:3Judge the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
Proverbs 21:3To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Isaiah 1:23Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Jeremiah 22:3Thus saith the LORD: Execute ye justice 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.
Ezekiel 22:7In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Daniel 4:27(4-24) Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by almsgiving, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of thy prosperity.'
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 →