Isaiah 1:17 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Tertullian

TO HIS WIFE 8 (220)

God offers a brief summary through the prophet Isaiah of the honor that widows enjoy in the sight of God.… The Father defends these two types of people [widows and orphans] through divine mercy in proportion to their being destitute of human aid. Look how the widow's benefactor is put on a level with the widow herself, whose champion shall "reason with the Lord."

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Learn to do well - , To learn here is to become accustomed to, to practice it. To do well stands opposed to all kinds of evil. “Seek judgment.” The word “judgment” - משׁפט mishpâṭ - here means justice. The direction refers particularly to magistrates, and it is evident that the prophet had them particularly in his view in all this discourse. Execute justice between man and man with impartiality. The word “seek” - דרשׁוּ dı̂reshû - means to pursue, to search for, as an object to be gained; to regard, or care for it, as the main thing.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לִמְד֥וּ	lim.Du	<you> learn	H3925 →
הֵיטֵ֛ב	hei.Tev	to do good	H3190 →
דִּרְשׁ֥וּ	dir.Shu	seek	H1875 →
מִשְׁפָּ֖ט	mish.Pat	justice	H4941 →
אַשְּׁר֣וּ	'a.she.Ru	set right	H833 →
חָמ֑וֹץ	cha.Motz	[the] oppressor	H2541 →
שִׁפְט֣וּ	shif.Tu	vindicate	H8199 →
יָת֔וֹם	ya.Tom	[the] fatherless	H3490 →
רִ֖יבוּ	Ri.vu	conduct a case for	H7378 →
אַלְמָנָֽה׃ ס	'al.ma.Nah	[the] widow	H490 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
leads to
- Deuteronomy 10:12–13
  And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your…
- Proverbs 21:3
  To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
- Colossians 3:12
  Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
- Jeremiah 22:3
  This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.…
- Hosea 6:6
  For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Through
Proverbs 31:9
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
leads to
- Leviticus 19:15
  You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
- Amos 5:11–12
  Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the…
Through
Jeremiah 22:3
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.…
leads to
- Jeremiah 21:12
  O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire…