Isaiah 1:23 - Modern King James Version

²³ your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards; they do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves; everyone loves bribes and runs after compensation and rewards. They judge not for the fatherless nor defend them, neither does the cause of the widow come to them [for they delay or turn a deaf ear].

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Common English Bible

²³ Your princes are rebels, companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and pursues gifts. They don’t defend the orphan, and the widow’s cause never reaches them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Your leaders are unfaithful, the associates of thieves. They all love gifts; they pursue rewards. They do not judge for orphans, and the widow's case is not brought before them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cometh not in to them.

Isaiah 1:23 Krydshenvisninger

2 Chronicles 36:14

Also all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of Jehovah which He had made holy in Jerusalem.

Exodus 23:8

And you shall take no bribe, for the bribe blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Proverbs 17:23

A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

Proverbs 29:24

He who shares with a thief hates his own soul; he hears an oath and does not tell.

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do good; seek judgment, reprove the oppressor. Judge the orphan, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, and let us reason together, says Jehovah; though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool.

Isaiah 1:22

Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water;

Isaiah 28:14

Therefore hear the Word of Jehovah, scornful men who rule this people in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 3:14

Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their kings; for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 30:1

Woe to the rebellious sons, says Jehovah, who make advice, but not of Me; and who cover with a covering, but not of My Spirit, that they add sin to sin;

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands free from holding bribes, who stops his ear from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;

Isaiah 5:23

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

Isaiah 65:2

I have spread out My hands all the day to a rebellious people who walk in the way not good, after their own thoughts;

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and for cruelty, and to do violence.

Jeremiah 32:32

because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and of the sons of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger, they, their kings, their rulers, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 4:17

Like watchmen of a field, they are against her all around; because she rebelled against Me, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 5:5

I will go up for myself to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of Jehovah and the judgment of their God. But these have broken the yoke together and have torn off the bonds!

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, and a wolf of the deserts shall rob them; a leopard shall watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from them shall be torn in pieces, because their sins are many and their backslidings are multiplied.

Ezekiel 12:2

Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see and see not. They have ears to hear and hear not, for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her rulers in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, to get unjust gain.

Hosea 4:18

Their drink is sour; they are continually fornicating; her rulers dearly love shame.

Hosea 5:10

The rulers of Judah were like movers of a border; I will pour out My wrath on them like water.

Hosea 9:15

All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them out of My house for the wickedness of their doings. I will love them no more; all their rulers are revolters.

Amos 5:12

For I know your many transgressions and your many sins. They afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate.

Micah 3:11

Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for silver, yet they will lean on Jehovah and say, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come on us!

Micah 3:9

Please hear this, heads of the house of Jacob, and magistrates of the house of Israel, who hate justice and pervert all equity.

Micah 6:12

For its rich men are full of violence, and its people have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are on evil, to do it well. The ruler asks for a bribe, and the judge also; and the great man speaks the evil desire of his soul. So they weave it together.

Zechariah 7:10

And do not crush the widow or the orphan, the alien or the poor. And do not devise evil in your heart, of a man against his brother.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Numbers 22:7

And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian pulled up stakes with the rewards of divination in their hand. And they came to Balaam and spoke the words of Balak to him.

Matthew 21:13

And He said to them, It is written, "My house shall be called the house of prayer"; but you have made it a den of thieves.

Mark 11:17

And He taught, saying to them, Is it not written, "My house shall be called the house of prayer for all nations?" But you have made it a den of thieves.

Luke 19:46

saying to them, It is written, "My house is a house of prayer," but you have made it a den of thieves.

Luke 24:27

And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not respect persons, nor take a gift. For a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after ill gain and took bribes and perverted judgment.