Isa 10:2 | NET2full | STEP | 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 .

‏ Isaiah 10:2

2 to keep the poor from getting fair treatment
and to deprive ^{▼▼tn Or “rob” (ASV, NASB, NCV, NRSV); KJV “take away the right from the poor.”} the oppressed among my people of justice,
so they can steal what widows own
and loot what belongs to orphans. ^{▼▼tn Heb “so that widows are their plunder, and they can loot orphans.”} ^{▼▼sn On the socio-economic background of vv. 1-2, see the note at 1:23.}