Isaiah 32:7

Easy To Read Version

That foolish person uses evil like a tool. He plans ways to take everything from poor people. That foolish person tells lies about the poor people. And his lies keep the poor people from being judged fairly.

Cross References

Psalm 119:95

Wicked people tried to destroy me.\par But your Agreement {\cf2\super [596]} made me wise.\par

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels and friends of thieves. All of your rulers demand bribes—they accept money for doing wrong things. All of your rulers take pay for cheating people. Your rulers don’t try to help the children that have no parents. And your rulers don’t listen to the needs of the women whose husbands are dead.”

Isaiah 26:10

An evil person will not learn to do good\par if you show him only kindness.\par An evil person will do bad things,\par even if he lives in a good world.\par That evil person might never see\par the Lord’s greatness.\par

Isaiah 29:21

(Those people lie about good people. They try to trap people in court. They try to destroy innocent people.)

Isaiah 5:23

And if you pay those people money, they will forgive a criminal. But they don’t allow good people to be judged fairly.

Isaiah 55:7

Evil people should stop living evil lives.\par They should stop thinking bad thoughts.\par They should come to the Lord again.\par Then the Lord will comfort them.\par Those people should come to the Lord\par because our God forgives.\par

Isaiah 59:15

Truth is gone.\par And people that try to do good are robbed.\par

Isaiah 61:1

\{The Lord’s servant says,\} “The Lord my Master put his Spirit in me. God chose me to tell good news to poor people and to comfort sad people. God sent me to tell the captives that they are free and to tell the prisoners that they have been set free.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then the enemies of Jeremiah said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah. Surely the teaching of the law by the priest will not be lost. And the advice from the wise men will still be with us. We will still have the words of the prophets. So let us tell lies about him. That will ruin him. We will not pay attention to anything he says.”

Daniel 12:10

Many people will be made pure—they will make themselves clean. {\cf2\super [138]} But evil people will continue to be evil. And those wicked people will not understand these things. But the wise people will understand these things.

Micah 2:1

Trouble will come to people\par that make plans to sin.\par Those people lie on their beds\par making their evil plans\par Then when the morning light comes,\par they do the bad things they planned.\par Why? Simply because they have the power\par to do what they want.\par

Micah 2:11

\{These people don’t want to listen to me.\}\par But if a man came telling lies\par then they would accept him.\par They would accept a false prophet\par if he comes and says,\par “There will be good times in the future,\par with plenty of wine and beer.”\par

Matthew 26:4

In the meeting, they tried to find a way to arrest Jesus without the people seeing it. They planned to arrest Jesus and kill him.