Isaiah 29:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Isaiah 29:21 Cross References

James 5:6

Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one; he doth not resist you.

Acts 3:14

But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you,

Matthew 26:15

and said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they weighed unto him thirty pieces of silver.

Matthew 22:15

Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might ensnare him in his talk.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgement; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers; and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

Ezekiel 13:19

And ye have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hearken unto lies.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Isaiah 32:7

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

Proverbs 28:21

To have respect of persons is not good: Neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.

Judges 12:6

then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he could not frame to pronounce it right; then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of Jordan: and there fell at that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand.

Psalm 127:5

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: They shall not be ashamed, When they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Isaiah 10:1

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

Isaiah 59:15

Yea, truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgement.

Jeremiah 36:29

And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD: Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?

Isaiah 5:20

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!

Isaiah 5:23

which justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!