Isaiah 1:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Jer 22:3 : 3 Thus says the LORD; Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
  • Ps 82:3-4 : 3 Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy; rescue them from the hand of the wicked.
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they do not judge the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.
  • Zeph 2:3 : 3 Seek the LORD, all you meek of the earth, who have carried out His judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be you shall be hidden in the day of the LORD'S anger.
  • Zech 7:9-9 : 9 Thus says the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother: 10 And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you plot evil against his brother in your heart.
  • Zech 8:16 : 16 These are the things that you shall do; Speak every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
  • Mic 6:8 : 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
  • Prov 31:9 : 9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
  • Jer 22:15-16 : 15 Shall you reign, because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD.
  • Dan 4:27 : 27 Therefore, 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 it may be a lengthening of your tranquility.

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    18Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

  • Isa 10:1-3
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    1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and who write out oppressive laws they have prescribed;

    2To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

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    16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD.

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    5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your deeds; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;

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    9Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

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    1Thus says the LORD, Keep judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

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    6Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

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    8He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

  • Jas 1:27
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    27Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

  • Ps 10:18
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    18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may oppress no more.

  • Mic 3:1
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    1And I said, Hear, I pray you, O leaders of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know justice?

  • Mal 3:5
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    5And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.

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    17You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:

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    17You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, How have we wearied him? When you say, Everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

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    28They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.

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    10Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

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    9Hear this, I pray you, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

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    1Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who executes judgment, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.

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    12O house of David, thus says the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him who is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury goes out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.

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    15You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

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    7You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

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    24But let judgment run down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

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    4Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth, for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.

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    14Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken.

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    17You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of anyone, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too difficult for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.

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    11Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

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    3To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

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    18He executes the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.

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    14The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their princes: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

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    1Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,