Isaiah 59:14

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:10

and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, You did curse God and the king. Then carry him out, and stone him to death.

1 Kings 21:11

The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Izevel had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them.

Psalm 119:150

They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Isaiah 1:21

How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness:

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the LORD of Armies is the house of Yisra'el, and the men of Yehudah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

Isaiah 59:11

We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Isaiah 59:4

None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the Kohanim bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end of it?

Jeremiah 7:28

You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of the LORD their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

Daniel 8:12

The army was given over [to it] together with the continual [burnt offering] through disobedience; and it cast down truth to the ground, and it did [its pleasure] and prospered.

Hosea 7:1

When I would heal Yisra'el, then the iniquity of Efrayim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Shomron; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.

Amos 5:11

Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of hewn stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Amos 5:7

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

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

Habakkuk 1:4

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