Isaiah 1:17
King James Version (KJV)
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
In context
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
Isaiah 1:17 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
- WEB World English Bible
- Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive [for] the widow.
- DBY Darby Translation
- learn to do well: seek judgment, gladden the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.