Isaiah 10:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Woe to those who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ 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)

¹ Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;

Common English Bible

¹ Doom to those who pronounce wicked decrees, and keep writing harmful laws

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Woe to those who make unfair laws, and who, when writing, write injustice:

Isaiah 10:1 Cross References

Luke 11:52

Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”

Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others.

John 19:6

When the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him; I find no case against him.”

John 9:22

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not everyone taunt such people and, with mocking riddles, say about them, “Alas for you who heap up what is not your own!” How long will you load yourselves with goods taken in pledge?

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is room for no one, and you are left to live alone in the midst of the land!

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain and abandon themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain and perish in Korah’s rebellion.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born.”

Matthew 23:29

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,

Matthew 23:27

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of uncleanness.

Habakkuk 2:12

“Alas for you who build a town by bloodshed and found a city on iniquity!”

Habakkuk 2:9

“Alas for you who get evil gain for your house, setting your nest on high to be safe from the reach of harm!”

Micah 6:16

For you have kept the statutes of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you have followed their counsels. Therefore I will make you a desolation and your inhabitants an object of hissing, so you shall bear the scorn of my people.

Matthew 11:21

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Habakkuk 2:19

Alas for you who say to the wood, “Wake up!” to silent stone, “Rouse yourself!” Can it teach? See, it is gold and silver plated, and there is no breath in it at all.

Habakkuk 2:15

“Alas for you who make your neighbors drink, pouring out your wrath until they are drunk, in order to gaze on their nakedness!”

Jeremiah 22:13

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbors work for nothing and does not give them their wages,

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who drag iniquity along with cords of falsehood, who drag sin along as with cart ropes,

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are, for what their hands have done shall be done to them.

Psalm 58:2

No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.

Isaiah 5:11

Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger in the evening to be inflamed by wine,

1 Kings 21:13

The two scoundrels came in and sat opposite him, and the scoundrels 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.

Isaiah 3:14

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.

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of their rights!

Isaiah 29:21

those who cause a person to lose a lawsuit, who set a trap for the arbiter in the gate and undermine justice for the one in the right.

Isaiah 59:4

No one brings suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas; they speak lies, conceiving mischief and bearing iniquity.

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing and denying the Lord and turning away from following our God, talking oppression and revolt, conceiving lying words and uttering them from the heart.

Exodus 23:3

nor shall you be partial to the poor in a lawsuit.

Exodus 23:6

“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in their lawsuits.

Amos 2:7

they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and push the afflicted out of the way; father and son go in to the same young woman, so that my holy name is profaned;