Isaiah 10:1 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition WOE TO those [judges] who issue unrighteous decrees, and to the magistrates who keep causing unjust and oppressive decisions to be recorded, American Standard Version (1901) Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness; Common English Bible Doom to those who pronounce wicked decrees, and keep writing harmful laws Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to those who make unfair laws, and who, when writing, write injustice: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version WOE to them that make wicked laws: and, when they write, write injustice: |
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.
Nay, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
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.
Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done to him.
The Lord enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: “It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening till wine inflames them!
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,
Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.
transgressing, and denying the Lord, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.
No one enters suit justly, no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing, and does not give him his wages;
they that trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same maiden, so that my holy name is profaned;
For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels; that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of the peoples.”
Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink of the cup of his wrath, and makes them drunk, to gaze on their shame!
Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a dumb stone, Arise! Can this give revelation? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.
Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, in scoffing derision of him, and say, “Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?— and loads himself with pledges!”
Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!
“Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Beth-saida! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,
The Son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”
Woe to you lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”
When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no crime in him.”
His parents said this because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should confess him to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.
Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error, and perish in Korah's rebellion.