Isaiah 10:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְהַטּוֹת מִדִּין דַּלִּים וְלִגְזֹל מִשְׁפַּט עֲנִיֵּי עַמִּי לִהְיוֹת אַלְמָנוֹת שְׁלָלָם וְאֶת־יְתוֹמִים יָבֹזּוּ

Transliteration

lehaṭṭôt middîn dallîm weligzōl mišpaṭ ʿăniyyê ʿammî lihyôt ʾalmānôt šelālām weʾet-yetômîm yābōzzû

Grammar Details

*lehaṭṭôt*: preposition + hiphil infinitive construct - to turn aside/pervert
*middîn*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - from judgment
*dallîm*: adjective, masculine plural - poor/needy/weak
*weligzōl*: waw conjunction + preposition + qal infinitive construct - and to rob/take away
*mišpaṭ*: noun, masculine singular construct - judgment/justice of
*ʿăniyyê*: adjective, masculine plural construct - poor/afflicted of
*ʿammî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my people
*lihyôt*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to be/become
*ʾalmānôt*: noun, feminine plural - widows
*šelālām*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their plunder/spoil
*weʾet*: waw conjunction + direct object marker
*yetômîm*: noun, masculine plural - orphans/fatherless
*yābōzzû*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they plunder/spoil

Word Meanings

*middîn*: from judgment/legal claim/case
*dallîm*: poor/weak/needy/helpless
*ʿăniyyê*: poor/afflicted/humble/oppressed
*šelālām*: their plunder/prey/spoil

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Referenced Verses

Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner [from his right], and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Isa 3:14 : 14 Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses:
Ezek 22:7 : 7 In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Isa 5:23 : 23 that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Isa 29:21 : 21 that make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.
Isa 1:23 : 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.
Jer 7:6 : 6 if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
Lam 3:35 : 35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
Amos 2:7 : 7 they that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go unto the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name:
Amos 5:11-12 : 11 Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof. 12 For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins— ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate [from their right].
Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.

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