Jesaja 10:2

2 Om de armen van het recht af te wenden, en om het recht der ellendigen Mijns volks te roven, opdat de weduwen hun buit worden, en opdat zij de wezen mogen plunderen!

Jesaja 10:2 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 10:2

To turn aside the needy from judgment
Such laws being made as discouraged them from any application for justice; and, when they did, were harassed with such long, vexatious, and expensive suits, as obliged them to desist, and the cause being generally given against them, and for the rich: and to take away the right from the poor of my people;
for not to do justice to the poor is the same as to rob and plunder them, and take away by force what of right belongs to them; wherefore it follows: that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the
fatherless;
who have none to protect and defend them, and whose protectors judges ought to be, in imitation of God, whom civil magistrates represent, who is the Judge of the widows and the fatherless; and therefore this is observed as an aggravation of their sin, which was very great indeed: it is very wicked in a judge to pervert the judgment of the poor and needy, the widow and the fatherless, contrary to laws that are made by God and men; but to make and prescribe wicked and unrighteous laws, that wickedness may be framed, and mischief committed by a law, that the poor and the needy, the widows and fatherless, may be injured under colour and pretence of law and justice, is the height of injustice. See ( Psalms 94:20 Psalms 94:21 ) .

Jesaja 10:2 In-Context

1 Wee dengenen, die ongerechte inzettingen inzetten, en den schrijvers, die moeite voorschrijven;

2 Om de armen van het recht af te wenden, en om het recht der ellendigen Mijns volks te roven, opdat de weduwen hun buit worden, en opdat zij de wezen mogen plunderen!

3 Maar wat zult gijlieden doen ten dage der bezoeking, en der verwoesting, die van verre komen zal? Tot wien zult gij vlieden om hulp, en waar zult gij uw heerlijkheid laten?

4 Dat elkeen zich niet zou buigen onder de gevangenen, en vallen onder de gedoden? Om dit alles keert Zijn toorn zich niet af, maar Zijn hand is nog uitgestrekt.

5 Wee den Assyrier, die de roede Mijns toorns is, en Mijn grimmigheid is een stok in hun hand!