Isaiah 29:21

God's Word

those who make people sin with words, those who lay traps for judges, those who, without any reason, deny justice to people who are in the right.

Cross References

Psalm 127:5

Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them. He will not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the city gate.

Proverbs 28:21

Showing partiality is not good, because some people will turn on you even for a piece of bread.

Isaiah 10:1

How horrible it will be for those who make unjust laws and who make oppressive regulations.

Isaiah 32:7

The tricks of scoundrels are evil. They devise wicked plans in order to ruin poor people with lies, even when needy people plead for justice.

Isaiah 5:20

How horrible it will be for those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn what is bitter into something sweet and what is sweet into something bitter.

Isaiah 5:23

who declare the guilty innocent for a bribe, who take away the rights of righteous people.

Isaiah 59:15

Truth is missing. Those who turn away from evil make themselves victims. The Lord sees it, and he’s angry because there’s no justice.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Let’s plot against Jeremiah, because the teachings of the priests, the advice of wise people, and the word of the prophets won’t disappear. Accuse him! Pay no attention to anything he says.”

Jeremiah 36:29

Say about King Jehoiakim of Judah, ‘This is what the Lord says: You burned this scroll, and you asked Jeremiah, “Why did you write that the king of Babylon will certainly come to destroy this land and take away people and animals?”

Ezekiel 13:19

You dishonor me in front of my people for a few handfuls of barley and a few pieces of bread. You kill people who shouldn’t die, and you spare the lives of people who shouldn’t live. You lie to my people who are willing to listen.

Malachi 3:5

“I will come to judge you. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers, lying witnesses, and those who cheat workers out of their wages and oppress widows and orphans. I will also testify against those who deprive foreigners of their rights. None of them fear me,” says the Lord of Armies.

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees went away and planned to trap Jesus into saying the wrong thing.

Matthew 26:15

He asked, “What will you pay me if I hand him over to you?” They offered him 30 silver coins.

Acts 3:14

You rejected the man who was holy and innocent. You asked to have a murderer given to you,

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered people who have God’s approval, even though they didn’t resist you.

Judges 12:6

they would tell him, “Say the word shibboleth.” If the fugitive would say sibboleth, because he couldn’t pronounce the word correctly, they would grab him and kill him at the shallow crossings of the Jordan River. At that time 42,000 men from Ephraim died.