Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.In other versions
learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
ASV
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.
BBE
learn to do well: seek judgment, gladden the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.
DBY
Learn to do well. Seek justice, Relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, Plead for the widow."
WEB
Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive `for' the widow.
YLT
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
ENG
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
WBT
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
BSB
In context
15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: