Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well.Seek justice.Relieve the oppressed.Judge the fatherless.Plead for the widow."
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 82:3"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless.Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Proverbs 21:3To do righteousness and justiceis more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Isaiah 1:23Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves.Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards.They do not judge the fatherless,neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
Jeremiah 22:3Thus says the Lord: "Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Ezekiel 22:7In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Daniel 4:27Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your 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 →