Isaiah 1:17

The Scriptures 1998

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

Cross References

Psalm 34:14

Turn away from evil and do good; Seek peace, and pursue it.

Exodus 22:21

“Do not tread down a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Mitsrayim.

Proverbs 15:25

יהוה  tears down the house of the proud, And He sets up the boundary of the widow.

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and right-ruling Is more acceptable to יהוה  than a slaughtering.

Proverbs 31:9

Open your mouth, judge righteously, And plead the cause of the poor and needy.

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 10:2

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.

Isaiah 56:1

Thus said יהוה, “Guard right-ruling, and do righteousness, for near is My deliverance to come, and My righteousness to be revealed.

Isaiah 58:6

“Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loosen the tight cords of wrongness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to exempt the oppressed, and to break off every yoke?

Jeremiah 21:12

‘O house of Dawiḏ

Jeremiah 22:3

‘Thus said יהוה, “Do right-ruling and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do not maltreat nor do violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 35:15

“And I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, ‘Turn, each one from his evil way, and make good your deeds, and do not go after other mighty ones to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear, nor obeyed Me.

Ezekiel 18:31

“Cast away from you all the transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Yisra’ĕ

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.

Ezekiel 45:9

‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Enough, you princes of Yisra’ĕ

Daniel 4:27

“Therefore, O sovereign, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your crookednesses by showing favour to the poor – your prosperity might be extended.”

Micah 6:8

He has declared to you, O man, what is good. And what does יהוה  require of you but to do right, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your Elohim?

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek יהוה, all you meek ones of the earth, who have done His right-ruling. Seek righteousness, seek meekness, if so be that you are hidden in the day of wrath of יהוה.

Zechariah 8:16

‘These are the words you should do: speak the truth to one another, judge with truth and right-ruling for peace in your gates.

Deuteronomy 14:29

“And the Lĕ

James 1:27

Clean and undefiled religion before the Elohim and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.