Isaiah 5:18

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You are in for trouble! The lies you tell are like ropes by which you drag along sin and evil.

Cross References

Psalm 10:11

They say, “God can't see! He's got a blindfold on.”

Psalm 14:1

Only a fool would say, “There is no God!” People like that are worthless; they are heartless and cruel and never do right.

Psalm 36:2

They like themselves too much to hate their own sins or even to see them.

Proverbs 4:17

Their food and drink are violence and cruelty.

Isaiah 28:15

Do you think you have an agreement with death and the world of the dead? Why do you trust in your lies to keep you safe from danger and the mighty flood?

Jeremiah 23:10

Those unfaithful prophets misuse their power all over the country. So God turned the pasture lands into scorching deserts.

Jeremiah 23:14

And you prophets in Jerusalem are even worse. You're unfaithful in marriage and never tell the truth. You even lead others to sin instead of helping them turn back to me. You and the people of Jerusalem are evil like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 23:24

in heaven and on earth. There are no secret places where you can hide from me.

Jeremiah 36:23

But every time Jehudi finished reading three or four columns, the king would tell him to cut them off with his penknife and throw them in the fire. Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah begged the king not to burn the scroll, but he ignored them, and soon there was nothing left of it. The king and his servants listened to what was written on the scroll, but they were not afraid, and they did not tear their clothes in sorrow.

Jeremiah 5:31

Prophets give their messages in the name of a false god, my priests don't want to serve me, and you—my own people— like it this way! But on the day of disaster, where will you turn for help?

Ezekiel 13:22

They do things I would never do. They lie to good people and encourage them to do wrong, and they convince the wicked to keep sinning and ruin their lives.

Zephaniah 1:12

I'll search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those people who sit there unworried while thinking, “The LORD won't do anything, good or bad.”

John 16:2

You will be chased out of the Jewish meeting places. And the time will come when people will kill you and think they are doing God a favour.

Acts 26:9

I once thought that I should do everything I could to oppose Jesus from Nazareth.

Judges 17:13

Micah said, “I have a Levite as my own priest. Now I know that the LORD will be kind to me.”

Judges 17:5

He had a shrine for worshipping God there at his home, and he had made some idols and a sacred priestly apron. Micah chose one of his own sons to be the priest for his shrine.