Isaiah 1:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.””
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“Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.”
King James Version · Public Domain“learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive <FI>for<Fi> the widow.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 1:17 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 22:21You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- Psalms 82:3Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
- Proverbs 15:25The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.
- Proverbs 21:3To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
- Proverbs 31:9Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
- Isaiah 1:23Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
- Isaiah 10:2to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
- Jeremiah 22:3This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
- Jeremiah 22:15Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
- Ezekiel 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
- Ezekiel 45:9For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’
- Daniel 4:27Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”
- Micah 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
- Zephaniah 2:3Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
- Zechariah 7:9“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
- Zechariah 8:16These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
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