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


In Context

14 Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated, They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing.

15 And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.

16 Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

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

18 Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

19 If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,

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 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 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.