Isa 1:17, 3:12-15, 5:7, 33:15, 58:6, Jer 22:17, Eze 22:7, 12-13 | ESV | STEP | learn to do good ; seek justice , correct oppression ; bring justice to the fatherless , plead the widow’s cause.

Isaiah 1:17

17 learn to do good;
^aseek justice,
correct oppression;
^bbring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow’s cause.

Isaiah 3:12-15

12 My people— ^cinfants are their oppressors,
and women rule over them.
O my people, ^dyour guides mislead you
and they have swallowed up ^{▼▼Or they have confused} the course of your paths.
13 The Lord ^fhas taken his place to contend;
he stands to judge peoples.
14 The Lord will enter into judgment
with the ^gelders and princes of his people:
“It is you who ^hhave devoured ^{▼▼Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5} the vineyard,
^jthe spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What do you mean by ^kcrushing my people,
by grinding the face of the poor?”

declares the Lord God of hosts.

Isaiah 5:7

7 ^lFor the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
but behold, bloodshed; ^{▼▼The Hebrew words for justice and bloodshed sound alike}
for righteousness,
but behold, an outcry! ^{▼▼The Hebrew words for righteous and outcry sound alike}

Isaiah 33:15

15 ^oHe who walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
who despises the gain of oppressions,
who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe,
who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed
^pand shuts his eyes from looking on evil,

Isaiah 58:6

6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:
^qto loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps ^rof the yoke,
to let the oppressed ^{▼▼Or bruised} go free,
and to break every yoke?

Jeremiah 22:17

17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
^tfor shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”

Ezekiel 22:7

7 Father and mother ^uare treated with contempt in you; the sojourner ^vsuffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow ^ware wronged in you.

Ezekiel 22:12-13

12 In you ^xthey take bribes to shed blood; ^yyou take interest and profit ^{▼▼That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor (compare Leviticus 25:36)} and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but ^aame you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

13 “Behold, ^abI strike my hand at ^acthe dishonest gain that you have made, and at ^adthe blood that has been in your midst.