Isaiah 10:2

Modern English Version

to turn aside the needy from justice 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!

Cross References

Job 31:16

“If I have kept the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Psalm 94:6

They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless.

Exodus 23:6

You shall not turn justice away from your poor in his dispute.

Proverbs 22:22

Exploit not the poor, because he is poor, and oppress not the afflicted at the gate,

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, whose fangs are like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among mortals.

Isaiah 1:17

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

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

Isaiah 29:21

those who cause a man to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the righteous with meaningless arguments.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord will enter into judgment with the elders and the princes of His people: For you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean that you beat My people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord God of Hosts.

Isaiah 32:6

for the vile person will speak nonsense, and his heart will work iniquity: to practice hypocrisy and to utter error against the Lord, to keep the hungry unsatisfied and to withhold drink from the thirsty.

Isaiah 5:23

who justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the justice of the righteous from him!

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

Isaiah 59:15

Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice.

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 gods to your harm,

Lamentations 3:35

to turn aside the justice due a man in the presence of the Most High,

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have treated father and mother with contempt. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they have vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Amos 2:6

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals.

Amos 2:7

They trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and push the oppressed out of the way. A man and his father go in to the same woman, profaning My holy name.

Amos 5:19

as if someone fled away from a lion, but a bear attacked him, or got into the house and rested his hand on the wall, but a snake bit him.

Micah 3:1

Then I said: Listen now, heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who turn aside the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord of Hosts.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against men. For you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.