Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The prophetic woe against those who frame unjust decrees to rob the widow of her right and make the poor their prey parallels scribes who 'devour widows' houses' under a pretense of piety. Coherent with the long-robed religious oppressors here; moderate volume from the shared widow-spoliation indictment.
Medium confidenceIsaiah pronounces woe on those who make widows their prey and rob the needy of justice, the same predatory devouring of widows Jesus denounces. The prophetic woe-against-widow-plunderers tradition supplies both the indictment and the eschatological judgment Jesus announces.
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