Verse 17
Isaiah 1:17
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
17
Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לִמְד֥וּ הֵיטֵ֛ב דִּרְשׁ֥וּ מִשְׁפָּ֖ט אַשְּׁר֣וּ חָמ֑וֹץ שִׁפְט֣וּ יָת֔וֹם רִ֖יבוּ אַלְמָנָֽה
English Translation
Learn well, seek justice, support the oppressed, judge the orphan, plead for the widow.
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Chapter 1 Context
1
The vision of Isaias the son of Amos I which he saw concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozi...
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2
Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and...
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3
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people...
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4
Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they hav...
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5
For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and t...
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6
From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruise...
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7
Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your fa...
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8
And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucu...
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9
Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gom...
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10
Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God (Elohim), ye people of...
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11
To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire n...
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12
When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in...
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13
Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination tome. The new moons, and the sabbaths, an...
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14
My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary o...
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15
And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply pray...
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16
Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,
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17
Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
18
And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as whit...
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19
if you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.
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20
But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of t...
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21
How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now m...
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22
Thy silver is turned into dress: thy wine is mingled with water.
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23
Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They...
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24
Therefore saith the Lord the God (Elohim) of hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort mys...
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25
And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dress, and I will take away all thy...
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26
And I will restore thy judges se they were before, and thy counsellors as of old. After this thou sh...
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27
Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice.
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28
And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, sha...
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29
For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed...
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30
When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water.
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31
And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn togeth...
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