Isaiah 59:14

Catholic Public Domain Version

And judgment has been turned backwards, and justice has stood far away. For truth has fallen down in the street, and fairness was not able to enter.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:10

And send out two men, sons of Belial, against him. And let them speak the false testimony: 'He has blasphemed God and king.' And then lead him away, and stone him, and so let him die."

1 Kings 21:11

Then his fellow citizens, those greater by birth and the nobles who were living with him in the city, did just as Jezebel had instructed them, and just as it was written in the letters that she had sent to them.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

I saw under the sun: instead of judgment, impiety, and instead of justice, iniquity.

Isaiah 1:21

How has the faithful city, full of judgment, become a harlot? Justice lived in her, but now murderers.

Isaiah 46:12

Hear me, you who are hard of heart, who are far from justice!

Isaiah 5:23

For you justify an impious man in exchange for bribes, and you carry away the justice of a just man from him.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel. And the man of Judah is his delightful seedling. And I expected that he would do judgment, and behold iniquity, and that he would do justice, and behold an outcry.

Isaiah 59:11

We will all roar like bears, and we will sigh like despondent doves. We hoped for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, and it is far from us.

Isaiah 59:4

There is no one who calls for justice, and there is no one who judges truly. For they trust in nothing, and they speak emptiness. They have conceived hardship, and they have given birth to iniquity.

Isaiah 59:9

Because of this, judgment is far from us, and justice will not take hold of us. We waited for light, and behold, darkness; we waited for brightness, and we walked in darkness.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets have prophesied lies, and the priests have applauded with their hands, and my people have loved these things. So then, what shall be done at the very end?"

Jeremiah 7:28

And you will say to them: This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of the Lord their God, nor accepted discipline. Faith has perished and been taken away from their mouth.

Daniel 8:12

And the advantage was given to him against the continual sacrifice, because of the sins, and truth will be struck down to the ground, and he will act, and he will prosper.

Hosea 7:1

When I was willing to heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the malice of Samaria, for they had been manufacturing lies. And the thief steals from inside, the robber from outside.

Amos 5:11

Therefore, on his behalf, because you have torn apart the poor and stolen choice prey from him: you will build houses with square stones and you will not dwell in them; you will plant the most delightful vineyards, and you will not drink wine from them.

Amos 5:7

You turn judgment into wormwood, and you abandon justice on earth.

Amos 6:12

For behold, the Lord has commanded, and he will strike the greater house with catastrophes, and the lesser house with divisions.

Habakkuk 1:4

Because of this, the law has been torn apart, and judgment does not persevere to its conclusion. For the impious prevail against the just. Because of this, a perverse judgment is issued.