Isaiah 1:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She that was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her— but now murderers!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ How the faithful city has become an [idolatrous] harlot, she who was full of justice! Uprightness and right standing with God [once] lodged in her–but now murderers.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

Common English Bible

²¹ This faithful town has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lived in her— but now murderers.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ How has the faithful city, full of judgment, become a harlot? Justice lived in her, but now murderers.

Isaiah 1:21 Cross References

Revelation 11:8

and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that is prophetically called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

Revelation 11:2

but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.

Luke 13:34

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

Zechariah 8:3

Thus says the Lord: I will return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts shall be called the holy mountain.

Hosea 11:12

Ephraim has surrounded me with lies and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not such a land be greatly polluted? You have prostituted yourself with many lovers, and would you return to me? says the Lord.

Isaiah 48:2

For they call themselves after the holy city and lean on the God of Israel; the Lord of hosts is his name.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his cherished garden; he expected justice but saw bloodshed; righteousness but heard a cry!

Psalm 48:8

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God, which God establishes forever. Selah

Psalm 48:1

Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God. His holy mountain,

Psalm 46:4

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.

Nehemiah 11:1

Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city Jerusalem, while nine-tenths remained in the other towns.

2 Chronicles 19:9

He charged them, “This is how you shall act: in the fear of the Lord, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart;

2 Samuel 8:15

So David reigned over all Israel, and David administered justice and equity to all his people.

Revelation 17:1

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great whore who is seated on many waters,

Isaiah 1:22

Your silver has become dross; your wine is mixed with water.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness.

Isaiah 59:14

Justice is turned back, and deliverance stands at a distance, for truth stumbles in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter.

Isaiah 59:15

Truth is lacking, and whoever turns from evil is despoiled. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

Hosea 2:5

For their mother has prostituted herself; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will go after my lovers; they give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”

Habakkuk 1:4

So the law becomes slack, and justice never prevails. The wicked surround the righteous; therefore judgment comes forth perverted.

Isaiah 26:10

If favor is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; they corrupt what is upright on the earth and do not see the majesty of the Lord.