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King James Version

Isaiah 10:2

To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Court;   Isaiah;   Orphan;   Poor;   Rulers;   Widow;   Scofield Reference Index - Armageddon;   Thompson Chain Reference - Business Life;   Courts;   Extortion Condemned;   Vices;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fatherless;   Poor, the;   Theft;   Widows;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Poor;   Servant;   Widow;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Orphan;   Poor;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Contribution;   Orphan;   Violence;   Widow;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Alms;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Corner;   Poor;   Shepherd;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judge (Office);   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Widow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Progress;   Wealth (2);   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Justice;   Testament;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crime;   Fatherless;   Isaiah;   Jeremiah (2);   Prey;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Alms;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
to keep the poor from getting a fair trialand to deprive the needy among my people of justice,so that widows can be their spoiland they can plunder the fatherless.
Hebrew Names Version
to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
English Standard Version
to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
New American Standard Bible
So as to deprive the needy of justice And rob the poor among My people of their rights, So that widows may be their spoil And that they may plunder the orphans.
New Century Version
They are not fair to the poor, and they rob my people of their rights. They allow people to steal from widows and to take from orphans what really belongs to them.
Amplified Bible
So as to deprive the needy of justice And rob the poor of My people of rightful claims, So that widows may be their spoil And that they may plunder the fatherless.
World English Bible
to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Geneva Bible (1587)
To keepe backe ye poore from iudgement, and to take away the iudgement of the poore of my people, that widowes may be their pray, and that they may spoyle the fatherlesse.
Legacy Standard Bible
So as to turn the poor away from their causeAnd rob the afflicted of My people of their justice,So that widows may be their spoilAnd that they may plunder the orphans.
Berean Standard Bible
to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their spoil and plunder the fatherless.
Contemporary English Version
that let you cheat the poor and needy and rob widows and orphans.
Complete Jewish Bible
to deprive the impoverished of justice and rob my people's poor of their rights, looting widows and preying on orphans!
Darby Translation
to turn away the poor from judgment, and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people; that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Easy-to-Read Version
They are not fair to the poor. They take away the rights of the poor and allow people to steal from widows and orphans.
George Lamsa Translation
To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that they may plunder the widows and that they may rob the fatherless!
Good News Translation
That is how you keep the poor from having their rights and from getting justice. That is how you take the property that belongs to widows and orphans.
Lexham English Bible
to guide the needy away from legal claims, and to rob the justice from the poor of my people, to make widows their spoil; and they plunder orphans.
Literal Translation
to turn aside the poor from judgment, and to steal justice from the poor of My people; that widows may be their prey; that they may rob orphans.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
wherthorow the poore are oppressed, on euery syde, and the innocetes of my people are there with robbed of iudgment: that wyddowes maye be youre praye, and that ye maye robbe the fatherlesse.
American Standard Version
to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Bible in Basic English
Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right of the poor of My people, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
King James Version (1611)
To turne aside the needy from iudgement, and to take away the right from the poore of my people, that widdowes may be their pray, and that they may robbe the fatherles.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Where thorowe the poore are put from their right, and my seelie people robbed of iudgement, that wydowes may be their pray, and that they may rob the fatherlesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
perverting the cause of the poor, violently wresting the judgement of the needy ones of my people, that the widow may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil.
English Revised Version
to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right of the poor of my people, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and to do violence to the cause of meke men of my puple; that widewis schulen be the prey of them, and that thei schulden rauysche fadirles children.
Update Bible Version
to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Webster's Bible Translation
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!
New English Translation
to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.
New King James Version
To rob the needy of justice, And to take what is right from the poor of My people, That widows may be their prey, And that they may rob the fatherless.
New Living Translation
They deprive the poor of justice and deny the rights of the needy among my people. They prey on widows and take advantage of orphans.
New Life Bible
They keep what is right and fair from those in need. They take away the rights of the poor of My people. They take from wives after their husbands die, and take what belongs to those who have no parents.
New Revised Standard
to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be your spoil, and that you may make the orphans your prey!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Turning aside from judgment, the poor, And robbing, of justice, the oppressed of my people, - So that, widows, become, their spoil, And of the fatherless, they make prey.
Douay-Rheims Bible
To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless.
Revised Standard Version
to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Young's Literal Translation
To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So as to deprive the needy of justice And rob the poor of My people of their rights, So that widows may be their spoil And that they may plunder the orphans.

Contextual Overview

1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; 2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! 3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? 4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

turn aside: Isaiah 29:21, Lamentations 3:35, Amos 2:7, Amos 5:11, Amos 5:12, Malachi 3:5

that widows: Isaiah 1:23, Isaiah 3:14, Isaiah 5:7, Jeremiah 7:6, Ezekiel 22:7, Matthew 23:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:22 - General Exodus 23:6 - General Job 22:9 - widows Job 24:4 - turn Psalms 94:6 - General Proverbs 10:2 - Treasures Isaiah 5:23 - take Isaiah 9:17 - have no joy Isaiah 59:14 - General Jeremiah 8:8 - in vain Ezekiel 22:29 - people Luke 20:47 - devour Acts 8:33 - judgment 1 Corinthians 6:9 - unrighteous Colossians 3:16 - all

Cross-References

Genesis 10:5
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10:7
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
Genesis 10:12
And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
Genesis 10:14
And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
Genesis 10:21
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
Isaiah 66:19
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
Ezekiel 27:7
Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Ezekiel 27:19
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
Ezekiel 38:6
Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
Ezekiel 38:15
And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

To turn aside the needy from judgment,.... Such laws being made as discouraged them from any application for justice; and, when they did, were harassed with such long, vexatious, and expensive suits, as obliged them to desist, and the cause being generally given against them, and for the rich:

and to take away the right from the poor of my people; for not to do justice to the poor is the same as to rob and plunder them, and take away by force what of right belongs to them; wherefore it follows:

that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless; who have none to protect and defend them, and whose protectors judges ought to be, in imitation of God, whom civil magistrates represent, who is the Judge of the widows and the fatherless; and therefore this is observed as an aggravation of their sin, which was very great indeed: it is very wicked in a judge to pervert the judgment of the poor and needy, the widow and the fatherless, contrary to laws that are made by God and men; but to make and prescribe wicked and unrighteous laws, that wickedness may be framed, and mischief committed by a law, that the poor and the needy, the widows and fatherless, may be injured under colour and pretence of law and justice, is the height of injustice. See Psalms 94:20.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To turn aside - Their sentences have the effect, and are designed to have, to pervert justice, and to oppress the poor, or to deprive them of their rights and just claims; compare Isaiah 29:21; Proverbs 27:5.

The needy - daliym - דלים dalı̂ym. Those of humble rank and circumstances; who have no powerful friends and defenders. “From judgment.” From obtaining justice.

And to take away - To take away by violence and oppression. The word גזל gāzal, is commonly applied to robbery, and to oppression; to the taking away of spoils in battle, etc.

That widows may be their prey - That they may rob widows, or obtain their property. This crime has always been one particularly offensive in the sight of God; see the note at Isaiah 1:23. The widow and the orphan are without protectors. Judges, by their office, are particularly bound to preserve their rights; and it, therefore, evinces special iniquity when they who should be their protectors become, in fact, their oppressors, and do injustice to them without the possibility of redress. Yet this was the character of the Jewish judges; and for this the vengeance of heaven was about to come upon the land.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 10:2. My people — Instead of עמי ammi, my people, many MSS., and one of my own, ancient, read עמו ammo, his people. But this is manifestly a corruption.


 
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