Isaiah 10:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, to make widows their spoil and to plunder orphans!

Cross References

Job 31:16

“If I have withheld anything that the poor desired or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail

Psalm 94:6

They kill the widow and the stranger; they murder the orphan,

Exodus 23:6

“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in their lawsuits.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob the poor because they are poor or crush the afflicted at the gate,

Proverbs 30:14

there are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mortals.

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do good; seek justice; rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan; plead for the widow.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan, and the widow’s cause does not come before them.

Isaiah 29:21

those who cause a person to lose a lawsuit, who set a trap for the arbiter in the gate and undermine justice for the one in the right.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: It is you who have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor? says the Lord God of hosts.

Isaiah 32:6

For fools speak folly, and their minds plot iniquity: to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of their rights!

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his cherished garden; he expected justice but saw bloodshed; righteousness but heard a cry!

Isaiah 59:15

Truth is lacking, and whoever turns from evil is despoiled. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

Jeremiah 7:6

if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,

Lamentations 3:35

when justice is perverted in the presence of the Most High,

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you.

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 needy for a pair of sandals—

Amos 2:7

they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and push the afflicted out of the way; father and son go in to the same young woman, so that my holy name is profaned;

Amos 5:19

as if someone fled from a lion and was met by a bear or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall and was bitten by a snake.

Micah 3:1

And I said: Listen, you 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 swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.