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


In Context

14 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.

15 When you spread forth 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. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.|

18 |Come now, and let us reason together,| says Yahweh: |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 you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of 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 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 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.