12 “And now, O Israel, what is Jehovah your God asking of you+ but to fear+ Jehovah your God, so as to walk in all his ways+ and to love him+ and to serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and all your soul;+

3 To carry on righteousness and judgment is more preferable to Jehovah than sacrifice.+

17 Learn to do good;+ search for justice;+ set right the oppressor;+ render judgment for the fatherless boy;+ plead the cause of the widow.”+

3 This is what Jehovah has said: “RENDER justice and righteousness, and deliver the one that is being robbed out of the hand of the defrauder; and do not maltreat any alien resident,* fatherless boy or widow.+ Do [them] no violence.+ And do not shed any innocent blood in this place.+

9 “This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘That is enough of YOU, O chieftains of Israel!’+

“‘Remove the violence and the despoiling,+ and do justice and righteousness themselves.+ Lift YOUR expropriations* off my people,’+ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.

6 “And as respects you, to your God you should return,+ keeping loving-kindness*+ and justice;+ and let there be a hoping in your God constantly.+