Albert Barnes Commentary Isaiah 10:2

"to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!" — Isaiah 10:2 (ASV)

To turn aside - Their sentences have the effect, and are designed, to pervert justice, and to oppress the poor, or to deprive them of their rights and just claims (Proverbs 27:5).

The needy - daliym - דלים dalı̂ym. These are those of humble rank and circumstances, who have no powerful friends and defenders. From judgment means from obtaining justice.

And to take away - This means to take away by violence and oppression. The word גזל gāzal—is commonly applied to robbery, and to oppression; to the taking away of spoils in battle, etc.

That widows may be their prey - This means that they may rob widows or obtain their property. This crime has always been particularly offensive in the sight of God (see the note at Isaiah 1:23). The widow and the orphan are without protectors. Judges, by their office, are particularly bound to preserve their rights; and it, therefore, reveals special iniquity when those who should be their protectors become, in fact, their oppressors and do injustice to them without the possibility of redress. Yet this was the character of the Jewish judges; and for this the vengeance of heaven was about to come upon the land.