Isaiah 59:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁴ Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far off. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God) stands far off; for truth has fallen in the street (the city's forum), and uprightness cannot enter [the courts of justice].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Justice is pushed aside; righteousness stands far off, because truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty can’t enter.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ And judgment has been turned backwards, and justice has stood far away. For truth has fallen down in the street, and fairness was not able to enter.

Isaiah 59:14 Cross References

1 Kings 21:10

Then seat two wicked men  opposite him and get them to testify against him, saying, ‘You have cursed God and the king! ’  Then take him out and stone him to death.

1 Kings 21:11

The men of his city, the elders and nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them, just as it was written in the letters she had sent them.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

I also observed under the sun: there is wickedness at the place of judgement and there is wickedness at the place of righteousness.

Isaiah 1:21

The faithful town – what an adulteress  she has become! She was once full of justice. Righteousness once dwelt in her, but now, murderers!

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to me, you hard-hearted, far removed from justice:

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the  Lord of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men  of Judah, the plant he delighted in. He expected justice but saw injustice; he expected righteousness but heard cries of despair.

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Isaiah 59:4

No one makes claims justly; no one pleads honestly. They trust in empty and worthless words; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we live in the night.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?

Jeremiah 7:28

Therefore, declare to them, “This is the nation that would not listen to the Lord their God and would not accept discipline. Truth  has perished #– #it has disappeared from their mouths.

Daniel 8:12

In the rebellion, the army was given up, together with the regular sacrifice. The horn threw truth to the ground and was successful  in what it did.

Hosea 7:1

when I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim  and the crimes of Samaria will be exposed. For they practise fraud; a thief breaks in; a raiding party pillages outside.

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from him, you will never live in the houses of cut stone you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

Amos 5:7

Those who turn justice into wormwood also throw righteousness to the ground.

Amos 6:12

Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does anyone plough there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood   –

Habakkuk 1:4

This is why the law is ineffective and justice never emerges. For the wicked restrict  the righteous; therefore, justice  comes out perverted.