Isaiah 5:23

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.

Cross References

Isaiah 10:2

To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless.

James 5:6

You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not.

Proverbs 17:15

He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.

Micah 7:3

The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.

Micah 3:11

Her princes have judged for bribes, and her priests have taught for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cometh not in to them.

Proverbs 24:24

They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall abhor them.

Proverbs 17:23

The wicked man taketh gifts out of the bosom, that he may pervert the paths of judgment.

2 Chronicles 19:7

Let the fear of the Lord be with you, and do all things with diligence. For there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor desire of gifts.

Deuteronomy 16:19

And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just.

Matthew 23:35

That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

1 Kings 21:13

And bringing two men, sons of the devil, they made them sit against him. And they, like men of the devil, bore witness against him before the people, saying: Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king. Wherefore they brought him forth without the city, and stoned him to death.

Isaiah 10:1

WOE to them that make wicked laws: and, when they write, write injustice:

Isaiah 32:7

The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath framed devices to destroy the meek with lying words, when the poor man speaketh judgment.

Isaiah 59:15

And truth hath been forgotten: and he that departed from evil lay open to be a prey. And the Lord saw, and it appeared evil in his eyes, because there is no judgment.

Amos 5:12

Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sine: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.

Isaiah 28:7

But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness. They are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment.

Isaiah 29:21

That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the just.