Isaiah 5:20

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

Wo to those saying, to evil, good, and to the good, evil; putting darkness for light, and light for darkness; putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitten

Cross References

Job 17:12

They will set the night for day: the light being near from the face of darkness.

Exodus 23:7

From the word of falsehood thou shalt go far away; and the innocent and the just one thou shalt not kill: for I will not justify the unjust one.

Proverbs 17:15

He justifying the unjust one and he condemning the just one, is an abomination to Jehovah, also they two.

Proverbs 4:17

For they ate the bread of injustice, and they will drink the wine of violences:

Isaiah 24:9

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those drinking it

Isaiah 29:21

Leading a man into sin by a word, and laying snares for him doing justice in the gate, and they will turn aside the just one by vanity.

Isaiah 30:10

Who said to the seeing, Ye shall not see, and to the perceiving, Ye shall not perceive for us right things, speak to us smooth things, perceive delusions.

Isaiah 32:5

Liberal shall no more be called to the foolish, and noble shall not be said to the deceiver.

Ezekiel 13:19

Ye will profane me to my people for handfuls of barley and for morsels of bread, to kill the souls which shall not die, and to preserve alive the souls which shall not live, by your falsehood to my people hearing the falsehood?

Amos 5:7

Turning judgment to wormwood and they put down justice in the earth.

Micah 3:2

Hating the good and loving the evil; plucking off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones.

Habakkuk 1:4

For this, the law will be slack, and judgment will not go forth forever: for the unjust surrounds the just; for this perverted judgment will go forth.

Malachi 2:17

Ye wearied Jehovah with your words: and ye said, In what did we weary? In your saying, Every one doing evil is good in the eyes of Jehovah, and he delighted in them; or, Where the God of judgment?

Malachi 3:15

And now we pronounce the proud happy; also they working injustice were built up; also they tried Jehovah and they will be delivered.

Luke 16:15

And he said to them, Ye are they justifying yourselves before men; and God knows your hearts: for the high with men is abomination before God.

Deuteronomy 25:1

If there shall be a controversy between men and they drew near to judgment, and they judged them; and they justified the just and condemned the unjust.

2 Peter 2:1

And also were there false prophets among the people, as also among you shall be false teachers, who shall privately bring in doctrines of perdition, and denying the master having purchased them, having brought upon themselves swift destruction.