17 learn to do good;
seek justice,
correct oppression;
bring justice to the xfatherless,
plead the widow’s cause.
3 Thus says the Lord: yDo justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. zAnd do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
9 “Thus says the Lord God: dEnough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your eevictions of my people, declares the Lord God.
6 “So you, by the help of your God, jreturn,
khold fast to love and justice,
and lwait continually for your God.”
8 He has told you, O man, what is good;
and cwhat does the Lord require of you
but to do djustice, and to love kindness,1
and to walk humbly with your God?