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Isaiah 10:2

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10:2 to keep the poor from getting fair treatment,

and to deprive 1  the oppressed among my people of justice,

so they can steal what widows own,

and loot what belongs to orphans. 2 

Isaiah 65:5

Context

65:5 They say, ‘Keep to yourself!

Don’t get near me, for I am holier than you!’

These people are like smoke in my nostrils,

like a fire that keeps burning all day long.

1 tn Or “rob” (ASV, NASB, NCV, NRSV); KJV “take away the right from the poor.”

2 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.



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