Jesaja 10:2

Schlachter Bibel

womit sie die Armen vom Rechtswege verdrängen und die Unterdrückten meines Volkes ihres Rechtes berauben; damit die Witwen ihre Beute seien und sie die Waisen plündern können.

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
auf daß sie die Sache der Armen beugen und Gewalt üben am Recht der Elenden unter meinem Volk, daß die Witwen ihr Raub und die Waisen ihre Beute sein müssen!

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

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.