Isaiah 10:2

You refuse to help poor people, and you do not allow them to get the things that they should get. You allow people to steal things from widows and do unfair things to orphans.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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!

In Context

1Terrible things will happen to you judges who are unjust and who make unfair laws.

3When I punish you by sending people from distant lands to cause you to experience disasters, ◄to whom will you run to get help?/there will be no one who can help you.► [RHQ] Your valuable possessions will certainly not be safe [RHQ] anywhere.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:6Decide the cases of poor people who are on trial as fairly as you decide the cases of other people.

Psalms 94:6They murder widows and orphans and people from other countries who think it is safe to live in our land.

Proverbs 30:14Some people act very cruelly toward others; it is as though [MET] they have teeth that are like sharp knives; they severely oppress poor people and try to cause them to disappear from the land.

Isaiah 1:23Your leaders are rebels; they spend time with thieves. They all want to get bribes and force others to give them gifts in order that they do good things for them. They do not defend orphans in court, and they do not do all they can to enable widows to get what they should receive.

Isaiah 5:7The nation of Israel is like [MET] the vineyard of the Commander of the armies of angels. The people of Judah are like the garden that was pleasing to him. He expected you to be doing what is just/fair, but instead, what he saw was people murdering [MTY] others. He expected that you would be doing righteous deeds, but instead, he heard cries from people who were being attacked violently.

Isaiah 29:21Those who testify falsely in order to persuade judges to punish innocent people will vanish/disappear. Similar things will happen to those who by lying in court persuade judges to make unjust decisions.

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 →

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