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Isaiah 1:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.” "

Isaiah 1:17

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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;

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Psalms 82:3

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"“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed."

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Jeremiah 22:3

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"The LORD says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place."

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Proverbs 31:9

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"Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”"

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Zechariah 7:10

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"Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’"

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Jeremiah 9:20

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"Yet hear the LORD’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation."

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Micah 6:8

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"He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?"

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From This Chapter

Isaiah 1:1

"The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah."

Isaiah 1:2

"Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for the LORD has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me."

Isaiah 1:3

"The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”"

Isaiah 1:4

"Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward."

Isaiah 1:5

"Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint."

Isaiah 1:6

"From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil."

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