17 Learn to do what is good.
Pursue justice.(A)
Correct the oppressor.[a]
Defend the rights of the fatherless.
Plead the widow’s cause.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:17 Or Aid the oppressed

17 Learn to do right;(A) seek justice.(B)
    Defend the oppressed.[a](C)
Take up the cause of the fatherless;(D)
    plead the case of the widow.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:17 Or justice. / Correct the oppressor

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

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16 He took up the case of the poor and needy;(A)
then it went well.
Is this not what it means to know me?
This is the Lord’s declaration.

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16 He defended the cause of the poor and needy,(A)
    and so all went well.
Is that not what it means to know(B) me?”
    declares the Lord.

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16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.

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