Isaiah 5:20

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Cross References

Job 17:12

They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

Exodus 23:7

*Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

Proverbs 17:15

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.

Proverbs 4:17

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Isaiah 24:9

They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

Isaiah 29:21

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Isaiah 30:10

who tell the seers, *Don't see!* and to the prophets, *Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

Isaiah 32:5

The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.

Ezekiel 13:19

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.

Amos 5:7

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

Micah 3:2

You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

Malachi 3:15

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'

Luke 16:15

He said to them, *You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Deuteronomy 25:1

If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

2 Peter 2:1

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.