Isaiah 5:23 - Revised Standard Version

²³ who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Who justify and acquit the guilty for a bribe, but take away the rights of the innocent and righteous from them!

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Common English Bible

²³ who spare the guilty for bribes, and rob the innocent of their rights.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ For you justify an impious man in exchange for bribes, and you carry away the justice of a just man from him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.

Isaiah 5:23 Cross References

1 Kings 21:13

And the two base fellows came in and sat opposite him; and the base fellows brought a charge against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city, and stoned him to death with stones.

2 Chronicles 19:7

Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you; take heed what you do, for there is no perversion of justice with the Lord our God, or partiality, or taking bribes.”

Psalm 94:21

They band together against the life of the righteous, and condemn the innocent to death.

Proverbs 17:15

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

Proverbs 17:23

A wicked man accepts a bribe from the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.

Proverbs 24:24

He who says to the wicked, “You are innocent,” will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations;

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.

Isaiah 10:1

Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression,

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 28:7

These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are confused with wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.

Isaiah 29:21

who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.

Isaiah 32:7

The knaveries of the knave are evil; he devises wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.

Isaiah 59:15

Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your transgressions, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.

Micah 3:11

Its heads give judgment for a bribe, its priests teach for hire, its prophets divine for money; yet they lean upon the Lord and say, “Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.”

Micah 7:3

Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.

Matthew 23:35

that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality; and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.

James 5:6

You have condemned, you have killed the righteous man; he does not resist you.