Isaiah 1:21

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 8:15

David reigned over all of Israel, and he administered fair judgments to all of his people.

2 Chronicles 19:9

And he commanded them, “Thus you shall do in the fear of the Lord, in honesty, and with a complete heart.

Nehemiah 11:1

Now the rulers of the people lived at Jerusalem, so the rest of the people cast lots in order to bring one out of ten to stay in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the other nine remained in other cities.

Psalm 46:4

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy dwelling place of the Most High.

Psalm 48:1

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in His holy mountain.

Psalm 48:8

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of Hosts, in the city of our God; God will establish it forever.    Selah

Isaiah 1:22

Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.

Isaiah 26:10

Though favor is shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals unjustly and does not perceive the majesty of the Lord.

Isaiah 48:2

for they call themselves after the holy city, and lean on the God of Israel; the Lord of Hosts is His name:

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

Isaiah 59:14

Justice is turned backward, and righteousness stands far off; for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

Isaiah 59:15

Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him and becomes another man’s, shall he return to her again? Shall not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to Me, says the Lord.

Hosea 11:12

Ephraim has surrounded Me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit. But Judah still walks with God, and is faithful to the Holy One.

Hosea 2:5

For their mother has played the whore. She that conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will pursue my lovers, who provide my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore injustice proceeds.

Zechariah 8:3

Thus says the Lord: I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem will be called a city of faithfulness and the mountain of the Lord of Hosts, the holy mountain.

Luke 13:34

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing!

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? They have even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels;

Revelation 11:2

But exclude the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will trample on the Holy City for forty-two months.

Revelation 11:8

Their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

Revelation 17:1

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,