Isaiah 10:2 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 10:2

to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

KJV

To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

⋯

Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

My people - Instead of עמי ammi, my people, many MSS., and one of my own, ancient, read עמו ammo, his people. But this is manifestly a corruption.

Voices on this verse

loading…

Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לְהַטּ֤וֹת	le.ha.Tot	to turn aside	H5186 →
מִדִּין֙	mi.Din	from judgment	H1779 →
דַּלִּ֔ים	da.Lim	poor [people]	H1800 →
וְלִגְזֹ֕ל	ve.lig.Zol	and to take away	H1497 →
מִשְׁפַּ֖ט	mish.Pat	[the] justice of	H4941 →
עֲנִיֵּ֣י	'a.ni.Yei	[the] poor [people] of	H6041 →
עַמִּ֑י	'a.Mi	people my	H5971 →
לִהְי֤וֹת	lih.Yot	to be	H1961 →
אַלְמָנוֹת֙	'al.ma.nOt	widows	H490 →
שְׁלָלָ֔ם	she.la.Lam	prey their	H7998 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
יְתוֹמִ֖ים	ye.to.Mim	fatherless ones	H3490 →
יָבֹֽזּוּ׃	ya.Vo.zu	they will plunder	H962 →

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
Malachi 3:5
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud…
leads to
- James 5:8–9
  You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
- Hebrews 13:4
  Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Deuteronomy 5:11
  You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
- James 5:4
  Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
- Deuteronomy 27:19
  ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Through
Isaiah 5:23
who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
leads to
- James 5:6
  You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Isaiah 29:21
those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.
leads to
- Amos 5:10–12
  There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
Through
Ezekiel 22:7
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 27:16
  ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’