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- Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.
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Jan 30, 2023 · Answer. In Isaiah 61:1–3, the prophet described the Messiah’s God-ordained mission to minister to the needs of the poor and disadvantaged. He began, “The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
To decline the justice of the poor and to rob the justice of the afflicted of my people, who will plunder widows and will seize orphans! perverting the cause of the poor, violently wresting the judgement of the needy ones of my people, that the widow may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil.
Break thy bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to thy house: if thou seest one naked, clothe him, and thou shalt not disregard the relations of thine own seed. Contemporary English Version. Share your food with everyone who is hungry; share your home with the poor and homeless.
- I am not aware of another review of passages focusing on the poor in the book of Isaiah by a Latter-day Saint author. Some Latter-day Saints have published books on the book of Isaiah as a whole, which are worth consulting, including Victor L. Ludlow, Isaiah: Prophet, Seer, and Poet (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1982); and Donald W. Parry, Jay A. Parry, and Tina M. Peterson, Understanding Isaiah (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1998).
- See, for example, Genesis 15; 17; Exodus 19. See also the comments of John Goldingay, “Covenant, OT and NT,” in The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 1, ed.
- Unless otherwise noted, quotations from the Bible in this paper are taken from the King James Version of the Bible (KJV).
- Since the issues highlighted in Isaiah often have parallels in other Old Testament prophetic passages, as well as in biblical legal, psalmic, and wisdom texts, occasional citations to some of them are also provided below.
10 Woe to unjust judges and to those who issue unfair laws, says the Lord, 2 so that there is no justice for the poor, the widows, and orphans. Yes, it is true that they even rob the widows and fatherless children.
Apr 27, 2024 · The first, and the most common outside of Isaiah, is the oppression of the poor by the powerful, and in contrast, the care of the poor by the righteous. Interestingly, in view of the topic of this paper, the oppressors are never expressly said to be the wealthy.
What does Isaiah chapter 10 mean? Isaiah chapter 10 continues to progress through more prophecies regarding God's coming destruction of both Judah and Assyria. First, the prophet declares woe on those in Judah and Israel who use the local laws to taking advantage of the poor and needy.
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