17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.


In Context

14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them. ]

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 Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:17learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:17learn to do well: seek judgment, gladden the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:17Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:17learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:17learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:17Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:17Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive for the widow.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.