Isaiah 1:17 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Learn to do good. Seek justice. Arrest oppressors. Defend orphans. Plead the case of widows."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

ASV:

learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

BBE:

Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

DBY:

learn to do well: seek judgment, gladden the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.

ERV:

learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

JPS:

Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

WBS:

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

WEB:

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."

YLT:

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive for the widow.

Isaiah 1:17 Cross References

XREF:

Psalm 82:3 Vindicate the weak and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

Jeremiah 22:3 Thus says the LORD, "Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. Also do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Zephaniah 2:3 Seek the LORD, All you humble of the earth Who have carried out His ordinances; Seek righteousness, seek humility. Perhaps you will be hidden In the day of the LORD'S anger. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

1:17 Learn to {z} do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
(z) This kind of reasoning by the second table, the scriptures use in many places against the hypocrites who pretend holiness and religion in word, but when charity and love for their brethren should appear they declare that they have neither faith nor religion.

WES:

1:17 Learn - Begin to live soberly, righteously, and godly. Judgment - Shew your religion to God, by practising justice to men. Judge - Defend and deliver them.

MHC:

1:16-20 Not only feel sorrow for the sin committed, but break off the practice. We must be doing, not stand idle. We must be doing the good the Lord our God requires. It is plain that the sacrifices of the law could not atone, even for outward national crimes. But, blessed be God, there is a Fountain opened, in which sinners of every age and rank may be cleansed. Though our sins have been as scarlet and crimson, a deep dye, a double dye, first in the wool of original corruption, and afterwards in the many threads of actual transgression; though we have often dipped into sin, by many backslidings; yet pardoning mercy will take out the stain, Ps 51:7. They should have all the happiness and comfort they could desire. Life and death, good and evil, are set before us. O Lord, incline all of us to live to thy glory.

CONC:

Case Cause Child Correct Cruel Decision Defend Encourage Fatherless Gladden Happy Judge Judgment Justice Learn Oppressed Oppression Orphan Plead Pleasure Relieve Reprove Ruthless Seek Strive Upright Well-doing Widow

Case Cause Child Correct Cruel Decision Defend Encourage Fatherless Good Happy Judge Judgment Justice Learn Oppressed Oppression Orphan Plead Pleasure Relieve Reprove Right Ruthless Seek Strive Upright Ways Well-Doing Widow

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