Isaiah 1:17

Meaningless Offerings

16Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil! 17Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

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Berean Standard Bible
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
American Standard Version (1901)
learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Bible in Basic English
Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.
Free Bible Version
Learn to do good; strive for justice, condemn those who oppress others; support the rights of orphans, take up cases to defend widows.
Geneva Bible 1599
Learne to doe well: seeke iudgement, relieue the oppressed: iudge the fatherlesse and defend the widowe.
King James (Authorized) Version
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
One Unity Resource Bible
Learn to do well. Seek mishpat ·justice·. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the orphan. Plead for the widow.”
Translation for Translators
Learn to do things that are good! Try to cause people to do what is just. Help people who are ◄oppressed/treated cruelly►. Defend orphans and widows when people take them to court.”
Unlocked Literal Bible
learn to do good; seek justice, make straight the oppression, give justice to the fatherless, defend the widow.”
Noah Webster Bible
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
World English Bible
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
Young's Literal Translation
Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive [for] the widow.