Isaiah 5:20

American King James Version (1999)

Woe to 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!

Cross References

Job 17:12

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

Exodus 23:7

Keep you far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay you not: for I will not justify the wicked.

Proverbs 17:15

He that justifies the wicked, and he that comdemns the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

Proverbs 4:17

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

Isaiah 24:9

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

Isaiah 29:21

That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.

Isaiah 30:10

Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

Isaiah 32:5

The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.

Ezekiel 13:19

And will you pollute 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 hear your lies?

Amos 5:7

You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Micah 3:2

Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment does never go forth: for the wicked does compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceeds.

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, Wherein have we wearied him? When you say, Every one that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

Malachi 3:15

And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work wickedness are set up; yes, they that tempt God are even delivered.

Luke 16:15

And he said to them, You are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

Deuteronomy 25:1

If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

2 Peter 2:1

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.