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to keep the poor from getting fair treatment,
and to deprive[a] the oppressed among my people of justice,
so they can steal what widows own,
and loot what belongs to orphans.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 10:2 tn Or “rob” (ASV, NASB, NCV, NRSV); KJV “take away the right from the poor.”
  2. Isaiah 10:2 tn Heb “so that widows are their plunder, and they can loot orphans.”sn On the socio-economic background of vv. 1-2, see the note at 1:23.