Isaiah 1:17

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

"Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow." - Isaiah 1:17
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What does Isaiah 1:17 mean?

Isaiah 1:17 in the King James Version of the Bible reads, "Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow." This verse is part of a larger passage in which the prophet Isaiah delivers a message from God to the people of Judah…

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A Call to Righteousness: Embracing the Heart of Justice

Isaiah 1:17 states, “Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.” This verse, rich in its call to action, encapsulates God's desire for His people to embody righteousness in their daily lives. This scripture urges us not…

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A Prayer for Justice and Compassion: Embracing the Heart of Isaiah 1:17

O Lord God, our compassionate Creator and Sovereign, we come before You in humility and reverence, acknowledging Your unfathomable wisdom and grace. As we dwell upon the profound instruction in Isaiah 1:17, where You say, "Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed…

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Isaiah 1:17 - "Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow."
Isaiah 1:7 - "Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers."
Isaiah 17:1 - "The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap."
Isaiah 54:17
Isaiah 54:17
Isaiah 38:17
"Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers." - Isaiah 1:7
"The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap." - Isaiah 17:1
Isaiah 24:17 - "Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth."
Isaiah 32:17 - "And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever."
Isaiah 22:17 - "Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee."
Isaiah 14:17 - "That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?"
Isaiah 40:17 - "All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity."
Isaiah 3:17 - "Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts."
Isaiah 5:17 - "Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat."
Isaiah 33:17 - "Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off."
Isaiah 65:17 - "¶ For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind."
Isaiah 8:17 - "And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him."
Isaiah 29:17 - "Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?"
Isaiah 21:17 - "And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it."
Isaiah 45:17 - "But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end."
Isaiah 13:17 - "Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it."
Isaiah 17:2 - "The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid."
Isaiah 49:17 - "Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee."
Isaiah 17:7 - "At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel."
Isaiah 17:14 - "And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us."
Isaiah 17:5 - "And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim."
Isaiah 2:17 - "And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day."
Isaiah 42:17 - "¶ They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods."