Isaiah 10:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² to keep the needy back from right-ruling, and to take what is right from the poor of My people, that widows become their prey, and orphans their plunder.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² To turn aside the needy from justice and to make plunder of the rightful claims of the poor of My people, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

American Standard Version (1901)

² 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!

Common English Bible

² to deprive the needy of their rights and to rob the poor among my people of justice; to make widows their loot; to steal from orphans!

Catholic Public Domain Version

² in order to oppress the poor in judgment, and to do violence to the case of the humble of my people, in order that widows may be their prey, and that they might plunder the orphan.

Isaiah 10:2 Cross References

Job 31:16

If I have withheld the poor from pleasure, or caused the widow’s eyes to fail,

Psalm 94:6

They slay the widow and the stranger, And murder the fatherless.

Exodus 23:6

“Do not turn aside the right-ruling of your poor in his strife.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob the poor because he is poor, And oppress not the afflicted at the gate.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are swords, And whose jaw-teeth are knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, And the needy from among men.

Isaiah 1:17

“Learn to do good! Seek right-ruling, reprove the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are stubborn, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and runs after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow reach them.

Isaiah 29:21

those who make a man to sin in word, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the righteous with empty reasoning.

Isaiah 3:14

יהוה  enters into judgment with the elders of His people and its heads, “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard, the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15

“What do you mean by crushing My people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Master, יהוה  of hosts.

Isaiah 32:6

for a fool speaks folly, and his heart works wickedness: to practise filthiness, and to speak against יהוה  that which misleads, to starve the being of the hungry, and to withhold the drink from the thirsty.

Isaiah 5:23

who declare right the wrong for a bribe, and the righteousness of the righteous they turn aside from him!

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of יהוה  of hosts is the house of Yisra’ĕ

Isaiah 59:15

And the truth is lacking, and whoever turns away from evil makes himself a prey. And יהוה  saw, and it displeased Him that there was no right-ruling.

Jeremiah 7:6

if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other mighty ones to your own evil,

Lamentations 3:35

To turn aside the right-ruling of man Before the face of the Most High,

Ezekiel 22:7

“They have despised father and mother within you. They have oppressed the stranger in your midst. They have wronged the fatherless and the widow within you.

Amos 2:6

Thus said יהוה, “For three transgressions of Yisra’ĕ

Amos 2:7

who crush the head of the poor ones in the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go in to the same girl, to defile My set-apart Name.

Amos 5:19

as when a man flees from a lion, and a bear shall meet him; or entered his house, rested his hand on the wall, and a serpent shall bite him.

Micah 3:1

Then I said, “Hear now, O heads of Yaʽ

Malachi 3:5

“And I shall draw near to you for right-ruling. And I shall be a swift witness against the practisers of witchcraft, and against adulterers, and against them that swear to falsehood, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and those who turn away a sojourner and do not fear Me,” said יהוה  of hosts.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.