Isaiah 1:17

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 34:14

Like a neighbor, and like our brother, so did I please; like one mourning and contrite, so was I humbled.

Exodus 22:21

You shall not harass the newcomer, nor shall you afflict him. For you yourselves were once newcomers in the land of Egypt.

Proverbs 15:25

The Lord will demolish the house of the arrogant. And He will make firm the borders of the widow.

Proverbs 21:3

To do mercy and judgment is more pleasing to the Lord than sacrifices.

Proverbs 31:9

Open your mouth, declare what is just, and do justice to the indigent and the poor.

Isaiah 1:23

Your leaders are unfaithful, the associates of thieves. They all love gifts; they pursue rewards. They do not judge for orphans, and the widow's case is not brought before them.

Isaiah 10:2

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 56:1

Thus says the Lord: Preserve judgment, and accomplish justice. For my salvation is close to its arrival, and my justice is close to being revealed.

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this, instead, the kind of fast that I have chosen? Release the constraints of impiety; relieve the burdens that oppress; freely forgive those who are broken; and break apart every burden.

Jeremiah 21:12

O house of David! Thus says the Lord: Judge with judgment from early morning, and rescue anyone who is oppressed by violence from the hand of a false accuser. Otherwise, my indignation may go forth like a fire, and may flare up, and there will be no one who can extinguish it, because of the evil of your intentions.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Exercise judgment and justice, and free anyone who is oppressed by violence from the hand of a false accuser. And do not be willing to sadden the new arrival, or the orphan, or the widow, nor should you burden them unfairly. And you shall not shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 35:15

And I have sent to you all my servants, the prophets, rising at first light, and sending, and saying: 'Convert, each one from his wicked way, and make your intentions good. And do not choose to follow strange gods, nor shall you worship them. And then you shall live in the land which I gave to you and to your fathers.' And yet you have not inclined your ear, and you have not heeded me.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, away from you, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. And then why should you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 22:7

They have abused father and mother within you. The new arrival has been oppressed in your midst. They have grieved the orphan and the widow among you.

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus says the Lord God: Let this be sufficient for you, O princes of Israel! Cease from iniquity and robberies, and execute judgment and justice. Separate your confines from my people, says the Lord God.

Daniel 4:27

And the king spoke out loud, saying, "Isn't this the great Babylon, which I have built, as the home of the kingdom, by the strength of my power and in the glory of my excellence?"

Micah 6:8

I will reveal to you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires from you, and how to act with judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk carefully with your God.

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth; you who have been working are his judgment. Seek the just, seek the meek. So then, in some way, you might be hidden in the day of the fury of the Lord.

Zechariah 8:16

Therefore, these are the words that you shall do: Speak the truth, each one to his neighbor. With truth and a judgment of peace, judge at your gates.

Deuteronomy 14:29

And the Levite, who has no other portion or possession with you, and the sojourner as well as the orphan and the widow who are within your gates, shall approach and eat and be satisfied, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands which you shall do."

James 1:27

This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.