Isaiah 5:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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!

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Common English Bible

²⁰ Doom to those who call evil good and good evil, who present darkness as light and light as darkness, who make bitterness sweet and sweetness bitter.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Woe to you who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light, and light for darkness; who exchange bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

Isaiah 5:20 Cross References

Job 17:12

They make night into day; ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’

Exodus 23:7

Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and those in the right, for I will not acquit the guilty.

Proverbs 17:15

One who justifies the wicked and one who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

Proverbs 4:17

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Isaiah 24:9

No longer do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

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 30:10

who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things; prophesy illusions;

Isaiah 32:5

A fool will no longer be called noble nor a villain said to be honorable.

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.

Amos 5:7

Ah, you who turn justice to wormwood and bring righteousness to the ground!

Micah 3:2

you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin off my people and the flesh off their bones,

Habakkuk 1:4

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

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”

Malachi 3:15

Now we count the arrogant happy; evildoers not only prosper, but when they put God to the test they escape.”

Luke 16:15

So he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts, for what is prized by humans is an abomination in the sight of God.

Deuteronomy 25:1

“Suppose two persons have a dispute and enter into litigation, and the judges decide between them, declaring one to be in the right and the other to be in the wrong.

2 Peter 2:1

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive opinions. They will even deny the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.