Jesaja 10:2

2 um die Armen vom Gericht zu verdrängen und die Elenden meines Volkes ihres Rechtes zu berauben, damit die Witwen ihre Beute werden und sie die Waisen plündern.

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 Wehe denen, die Satzungen des Unheils verordnen, und den Schreibern, welche Mühsal ausfertigen,

2 um die Armen vom Gericht zu verdrängen und die Elenden meines Volkes ihres Rechtes zu berauben, damit die Witwen ihre Beute werden und sie die Waisen plündern.

3 Und was wollt ihr tun am Tage der Heimsuchung und beim Sturme, der von fern daherkommt? Zu wem sollt ihr fliehen um Hilfe, und wohin eure Herrlichkeit in Sicherheit bringen?

4 Nichts anderes bleibt übrig, als unter Gefesselten sich zu krümmen; und unter Erschlagenen fallen sie hin. Bei dem allen wendet sich sein Zorn nicht ab, und noch ist seine Hand ausgestreckt.

5 He! Assyrer, Rute meines Zornes! Und der Stock in seiner Hand ist mein Grimm.