Isaiah 1:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ learn to do well; seek judgement, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Learn to do right! Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ learn to do good. Seek justice: help the oppressed; defend the orphan; plead for the widow.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Learn to do good. Seek judgment, support the oppressed, judge for the orphan, defend the widow.

Isaiah 1:17 Cross References

Micah 6:8

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus saith the LORD: Execute ye judgement and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled 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.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Proverbs 31:9

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, And minister judgement to the poor and needy.

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbour; execute the judgement of truth and peace in your gates:

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgement; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

Daniel 4:27

Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Deuteronomy 14:29

and the Levite, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

Psalm 34:14

Depart from evil, and do good; Seek peace, and pursue it.

Isaiah 56:1

Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgement, and do righteousness: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Jeremiah 21:12

O house of David, thus saith the LORD, Execute judgement in the morning, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Jeremiah 35:15

I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereto ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Exodus 22:21

And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Proverbs 15:25

The LORD will root up the house of the proud: But he will establish the border of the widow.

Proverbs 21:3

To do justice and judgement Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Isaiah 10:2

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

Ezekiel 22:7

In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee, have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus saith the Lord GOD Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgement and justice; take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD