Isaiah 29:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Those who make a man an offender and bring condemnation upon him with a word, and lay a trap for him who upholds justice at the city gate, and thrust aside the innocent and truly righteous with an empty plea.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ that make a man an offender in his cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.

Common English Bible

²¹ all who incriminate others wrongly, who entrap the judge in the gate, and pointlessly postpone justice for the innocent.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ For they caused men to sin by a word, and they supplanted him who argued against them at the gates, and they turned away from justice in vain.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the just.

Isaiah 29:21 Cross References

Psalm 127:5

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Proverbs 28:21

To show partiality is not good, yet for a piece of bread a person may do wrong.

Isaiah 10:1

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

Isaiah 32:7

The villainies of villains are evil; they devise wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.

Isaiah 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:23

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

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.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us bring charges against him, and let us not heed any of his words.”

Jeremiah 36:29

And concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah you shall say: Thus says the Lord, You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land and will cut off from it human beings and animals?”

Ezekiel 13:19

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death those who should not die and keeping alive those who should not live, by your lies to my people, who listen to lies.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said.

Matthew 26:15

and said, “What will you give me if I betray him to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver.

Acts 3:14

But you rejected the holy and righteous one and asked to have a murderer given to you,

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.

Judges 12:6

they said to him, “Then say Shibboleth,” and he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites fell at that time.