Isaiah 1:17
World English Bible (WEB)
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
In context
15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
17 Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
18 “Come now, and let’s reason together,” says the LORD: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;
Isaiah 1:17 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
- KJV King James Version
- Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge 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.