Isaiah 10:2

Good News Translation

That is how you keep the poor from having their rights and from getting justice. That is how you take the property that belongs to widows and orphans.

Cross References

Job 31:16

I have never refused to help the poor; never have I let widows live in despair

Psalm 94:6

They kill widows and orphans, and murder the strangers who live in our land.

Exodus 23:6

“Do not deny justice to a poor person when he appears in court.

Proverbs 22:22

Don't take advantage of the poor just because you can; don't take advantage of those who stand helpless in court.

Proverbs 30:14

There are people who take cruel advantage of the poor and needy; that is the way they make their living.

Isaiah 1:17

and learn to do right. See that justice is done—help those who are oppressed, give orphans their rights, and defend widows.”

Isaiah 1:23

Your leaders are rebels and friends of thieves; they are always accepting gifts and bribes. They never defend orphans in court or listen when widows present their case.

Isaiah 29:21

God will destroy those who slander others, those who prevent the punishment of criminals, and those who tell lies to keep honest people from getting justice.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord is bringing the elders and leaders of his people to judgment. He makes this accusation: “You have plundered vineyards, and your houses are full of what you have taken from the poor.

Isaiah 3:15

You have no right to crush my people and take advantage of the poor. I, the Sovereign Lord Almighty, have spoken.”

Isaiah 32:6

A fool speaks foolishly and thinks up evil things to do. What he does and what he says are an insult to the Lord, and he never feeds the hungry or gives thirsty people anything to drink.

Isaiah 5:23

But for just a bribe you let the guilty go free, and you keep the innocent from getting justice.

Isaiah 5:7

Israel is the vineyard of the Lord Almighty; the people of Judah are the vines he planted. He expected them to do what was good, but instead they committed murder. He expected them to do what was right, but their victims cried out for justice.

Isaiah 59:15

There is so little honesty that those who stop doing evil find themselves the victims of crime.” The Lord has seen this, and he is displeased that there is no justice.

Jeremiah 7:6

Stop taking advantage of aliens, orphans, and widows. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop worshiping other gods, for that will destroy you.

Lamentations 3:35

He knows when we are denied the rights he gave us;

Ezekiel 22:7

None of you in the city honor your parents. You cheat foreigners and take advantage of widows and orphans.

Amos 2:6

The Lord says, “The people of Israel have sinned again and again, and for this I will certainly punish them. They sell into slavery honest people who cannot pay their debts, the poor who cannot repay even the price of a pair of sandals.

Amos 2:7

They trample down the weak and helpless and push the poor out of the way. A man and his father have intercourse with the same slave woman, and so profane my holy name.

Amos 5:19

It will be like someone who runs from a lion and meets a bear! Or like someone who comes home and puts his hand on the wall—only to be bitten by a snake!

Micah 3:1

Listen, you rulers of Israel! You are supposed to be concerned about justice,

Malachi 3:5

The Lord Almighty says, “I will appear among you to judge, and I will testify at once against those who practice magic, against adulterers, against those who give false testimony, those who cheat employees out of their wages, and those who take advantage of widows, orphans, and foreigners—against all who do not respect me.

Matthew 23:13

“How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You lock the door to the Kingdom of heaven in people's faces, but you yourselves don't go in, nor do you allow in those who are trying to enter!