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


In Context

14 Your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts my soul hates. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.

15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood;

16 wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight! Stop doing wrong,

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

18 "Come now, let us reason together," says the Lord . "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land;

Isaiah 1:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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