Isaiah 1:21

Good News Translation

The city that once was faithful is behaving like a whore! At one time it was filled with righteous people, but now only murderers remain.

Cross References

2 Samuel 8:15

David ruled over all of Israel and made sure that his people were always treated fairly and justly.

2 Chronicles 19:9

He gave them the following instructions: “You must perform your duties in reverence for the Lord, faithfully obeying him in everything you do.

Nehemiah 11:1

The leaders settled in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people drew lots to choose one family out of every ten to go and live in the holy city of Jerusalem, while the rest were to live in the other cities and towns.

Psalm 46:4

There is a river that brings joy to the city of God, to the sacred house of the Most High.

Psalm 48:1

The Lord is great and is to be highly praised in the city of our God, on his sacred hill.

Psalm 48:8

We have heard what God has done, and now we have seen it in the city of our God, the Lord Almighty; he will keep the city safe forever.

Isaiah 1:22

Jerusalem, you were once like silver, but now you are worthless; you were like good wine, but now you are only water.

Isaiah 26:10

Even though you are kind to the wicked, they never learn to do what is right. Even here in a land of righteous people they still do wrong; they refuse to recognize your greatness.

Isaiah 48:2

And yet you are proud to say that you are citizens of the holy city and that you depend on Israel's God, whose name is the Lord Almighty.

Isaiah 5:7

Israel is the vineyard of the Lord Almighty; the people of Judah are the vines he planted. He expected them to do what was good, but instead they committed murder. He expected them to do what was right, but their victims cried out for justice.

Isaiah 59:14

Justice is driven away, and right cannot come near. Truth stumbles in the public square, and honesty finds no place there.

Isaiah 59:15

There is so little honesty that those who stop doing evil find themselves the victims of crime.” The Lord has seen this, and he is displeased that there is no justice.

Isaiah 59:3

You are guilty of lying, violence, and murder.

Jeremiah 3:1

The Lord says, “If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, he cannot take her back again. This would completely defile the land. But, Israel, you have had many lovers, and now you want to return to me!

Hosea 11:12

The Lord says, “The people of Israel have surrounded me with lies and deceit, and the people of Judah are still rebelling against me, the faithful and holy God.

Habakkuk 1:4

The law is weak and useless, and justice is never done. Evil people get the better of the righteous, and so justice is perverted.

Zechariah 8:3

I will return to Jerusalem, my holy city, and live there. It will be known as the faithful city, and the hill of the Lord Almighty will be called the sacred hill.

Luke 13:34

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets, you stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!

Acts 7:52

Was there any prophet that your ancestors did not persecute? They killed God's messengers, who long ago announced the coming of his righteous Servant. And now you have betrayed and murdered him.

Hebrews 12:22

Instead, you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, with its thousands of angels.

Revelation 11:2

But do not measure the outer courts, because they have been given to the heathen, who will trample on the Holy City for forty-two months.

Revelation 11:8

and their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, where their Lord was crucified. The symbolic name of that city is Sodom, or Egypt.

Revelation 17:1

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came to me and said, “Come, and I will show you how the famous prostitute is to be punished, that great city that is built near many rivers.