Isaías 1:23

23 Seus líderes são rebeldes,amigos de ladrões;todos eles amam o subornoe andam atrás de presentes.Eles não defendem os direitos do órfão,e não tomam conhecimento da causa da viúva.

Isaías 1:23 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes [are] rebellious
Stubborn and obstinate, refused to receive and acknowledge the Messiah; such were the Jewish rulers, civil and ecclesiastical, in the times of Christ. And companions of thieves:
who devoured widows' houses; made the temple, which was a house of prayer, a den of thieves; and took away the key of knowledge from the people, and would not suffer them to attend the ministry of the Gospel, ( Matthew 21:13 ) ( Matthew 23:13 Matthew 23:14 ) ( Luke 11:52 ) everyone loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards.
The Targum paraphrases it,

``everyone says to his neighbour, do me a favour in my cause, I will return "it" to thee in thy cause;''

and so justice was perverted: they judge not the fatherless;
that is, either they do not take their cause in hand at all, or, if they do, do not do them justice, but wrong them of their goods and estates, which, of right, belong to them: neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them;
there being no money to be got by undertaking it; see the case of the unjust judge, a picture of judges in those times, ( Luke 18:2 Luke 18:3 ) .

Isaías 1:23 In-Context

21 Vejam como a cidade fielse tornou prostituta!Antes cheia de justiçae habitada pela retidão,agora está cheia de assassinos!

22 Sua prata tornou-se escória,seu licor ficou aguado.

23 Seus líderes são rebeldes,amigos de ladrões;todos eles amam o subornoe andam atrás de presentes.Eles não defendem os direitos do órfão,e não tomam conhecimento da causa da viúva.

24 Por isso o Soberano, o SENHOR dos Exércitos,o Poderoso de Israel, anuncia:“Ah! Derramarei minha ira sobre os meus adversáriose me vingarei dos meus inimigos.

25 Voltarei minha mão contra você;tirarei toda a sua escóriae removerei todas as suas impurezas.