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Woe to the Rebels!Isaiah’s Prophecy—Light for All Mankind I
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Jehovah will hold to account those who prey on others
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Woe to the Rebels!Isaiah’s Prophecy—Light for All Mankind I
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17, 18. What corruption exists in Israel’s legal and administrative system?
17 Jehovah next focuses his judicial eye on Israel’s corrupt judges and other officials. These abuse their power by plundering the lowly and afflicted ones who come to them seeking justice. Isaiah says: “Woe to those who are enacting harmful regulations and those who, constantly writing, have written out sheer trouble, in order to push away the lowly ones from a legal case and to wrest away justice from the afflicted ones of my people, for the widows to become their spoil, and that they may plunder even the fatherless boys!”—Isaiah 10:1, 2.
18 Jehovah’s Law forbids all forms of injustice: “You people must not do injustice in the judgment. You must not treat the lowly with partiality, and you must not prefer the person of a great one.” (Leviticus 19:15) Disregarding that law, these officials draw up their own “harmful regulations” so as to legitimize what amounts to outright theft of the cruelest kind—taking the scanty possessions of widows and fatherless boys. Israel’s false gods are, of course, blind to this injustice, but Jehovah is not.
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