Isaiah 10:2
Of My people, || That widows may be their prey, || That they may spoil the fatherless.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
1“Woe [to] those decreeing decrees of iniquity, || And writers who have prescribed perverseness,
Cross References
Exodus 23:6You do not turn aside the judgment of your poor in his strife;
Psalms 94:6They slay widow and sojourner, || And they murder fatherless ones.
Proverbs 30:14A generation—their teeth [are] swords, || And their jaw-teeth [are] knives, || To consume the poor from earth, || And the needy from [among] men.
Isaiah 1:23Your princes [are] apostates, and companions of thieves, || Everyone loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, || They do not judge the fatherless, || And the plea of the widow does not come to them.
Isaiah 5:7Because the vineyard of YHWH of Hosts || [Is] the house of Israel, || And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, || And He waits for judgment, and behold, oppression, || For righteousness, and behold, a cry.
Isaiah 29:21Who cause men to sin in word, || And lay a snare for a reprover in the gate, || And turn aside the righteous into emptiness.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 10:2-5
The Condemnation of Oppressors. ( b. c. 740.) 1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; 2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! 3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? 4 Without me they shall bow down under… Read the whole commentary →