Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well—Seek justice, Correct the oppressor,—Vindicate the fatherless, Plead the cause of the widow,
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 82:3Vindicate the weak and the fatherless, The oppressed and the poor, see righted;
Proverbs 21:3To do righteousness and justice, is more choice to Yahweh than sacrifice.
Isaiah 1:23Thy rulers, are unruly, and companions of thieves, Every one of the people, loveth a bribe, and runneth after rewards,—The fatherless, they do not vindicate, And, the plea of the widow, reacheth them not.
Jeremiah 22:3Thus, saith Yahweh,—Execute ye justice, and righteousness, And deliver the robbed out of the hand of the oppressor,—But the sojourner the fatherless, and the widow, do not oppress neither commit violence, And the blood of the innocent, do not ye shed, in this place.
Ezekiel 22:7Father and mother, have they despised in thee, To the sojourner, have they dealt with oppression in the midst of thee,— The fatherless and the widow, have they maltreated in thee:
Daniel 4:27Wherefore, O king, let, my counsel, be pleasing unto thee, thy sin, then,—by righteousness, break thou off, and, thine iniquities, by shewing favour to the oppressed,—if so be it may become the lengthening out of thy security.
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 →