17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. …
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-20)Though God had rejected their services as insufficient to atone for their sins while they persisted in them, yet he does not reject them as in a hopeless condition, but here calls upon them to forsake their sins, which hindered the acceptance of their services, and then all would be well. Let them not say that God picked quarrels with them; no, he proposes a method of reconciliation. Observe here,…
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