Isaiah 1:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Isaiah 1:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Learn to do well - , To learn here is to become accustomed to, to practice it. To do well stands opposed to all kinds of evil. “Seek judgment.” The word “judgment” - משׁפט mishpâṭ - here me...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Learn to (z) do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. (z) This kind of reasoning by the second table, the scriptures use in many places against the h...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  This connects admirably with Isaiah 1:9 . By a fine transition Isaiah intimates that it is no merit in the rulers which has averted Sodom's fate. Let these lawless and shameless administrators liste...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  fatherless. widow. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), for all kinds of helpless and bereaved persons.

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  17. Learn to do well As he had just now, ill enjoining them to cease to do evil, charged them with the continual practice of iniquity as if he had said that their whole life was a constant...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 858 THE SERVICE WHICH ALONE IS PLEASING TO GOD Isaiah 1:10-17 . Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha: To what purpose...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Relieve the oppressed "Amend that which is corrupted" - אשרו חמוץ asheru chamots. In rendering this...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Relieve the oppressed— Or, Reform what is amiss. Bochart.

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Seek judgment - justice, as magistrates, instead of seeking bribes ( Jeremiah 22:3 ; Jeremi...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Jehovah's Arraignment of His People This chapter is general in character, and much of it (e.g. Isaiah 1:10-17 ) might refer to almost any period. This general character of the prophecy renders it...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Relieve the oppressed. — More accurately, correct the oppressor. The prophet calls on the rulers not merely to acts of benevolence, but to the courageous exercise of their authority to restrain t...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER I THE ARGUMENT OF THE LORD AND ITS CONCLUSION Isaiah 1:1-31 -His General Preface THE first chapter of the Book of Isaiah owes its position not to its date, but to its character. It was...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Religion without Righteousness Vain Isaiah 1:10-20 The prophet points out, first the misery that had overtaken the country, Isaiah 1:4-9 ; and then the sins of the ruling classes, Isaiah 1:10...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Isaiah was a prophet to Judah. He exercised his ministry wholly within her borders, and with a view to her correction and comfort. His burdens of the nations were uttered concerning those nations whi...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I make no break in this address of the prophet. The whole forms but one sermon, and a most striking one it is. I beg the reader to remark with me the very pointed terms made use of by the man of God....

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• Isaiah 1:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Learn to do well ,.... Which men are naturally ignorant of; to do good they have no knowledge; nor can they that are accustomed to do evil learn to do well of themselves; but the Lord can teach them...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Ver. 17. Learn to do well. ] Turn over a new leaf, take out a new lesson. "Be thou instructed, O...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Wash ye, make you clean Repent, and do works meet for repentance: cleanse your hearts and hands from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, and do not content yourselves with your ceremonial washings....

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  A Call to Repentance; Repentance and Reformation Urged. B. C. 738.       16 Wash you, make y...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Learn to do well; begin and inure yourselves to live soberly, righteously, and godly. Seek judgment; show your religion to God, by studying and practising justice to men, and neither give nor pro...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Isaiah Outlines The Message He Is Bringing ( Isaiah 1:1-31 ). This introductory message is also presented in balanced chiastic form. a He calls on Creation to be aware of God's judgment on His pe...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  TRUE AND FALSE RELIGION Isaiah 1:11 ; Isaiah 1:16-17 . To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord. I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed be...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Isaiah 1:16-18 As early then as the time of Isaiah we find the doctrine of the reformation of character dependent on forgiveness of sin distinctly taught. Consider: I. The demand made. (1) The n...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  This is a chapter which, I think, teaches an important lesson to those of us who desire the salvation of men, for it shows us how God sets about that work. He begins by exhibiting the sinner's sin to...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 1:1 . The vision. What the prophet saw with the eyes of his mind, concerning the state of Judah and Jerusalem, his ministry being chiefly confined to the kingdom of Judea. Isaiah, the son...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken God finds vindication in nature I well remember two funerals going out of my house within a few brief months during my residence...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  PART I.— EARLIER PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH ( CH . 1-35.) SECTION I.— THE GREAT ARRAIGNMENT ( Isaiah 1:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Isaiah 1:1 TITLE OF THE WORK . It is questioned...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Suggesting the only Way of Relief

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 4:27 ; Isaiah 1:23 ; Jeremiah 22:15 ; Jeremiah 22:16 ; Jeremiah 22:3 ; Micah 6:8 ; Proverbs 31:9 ; Psalms 82:3 ; Psalms 82:4 ; Zechariah 7:10 ; Zechariah 7:9 ; Zechariah 8:16 ; Ze...

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• Isaiah 1:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Learn — Begin to live soberly, righteously, and godly. Judgment — Shew your religion to God, by practising justice to men. Judge — Defend and deliver them.

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