Isaiah 1:21

New American Bible - revised edition

How she has become a prostitute, the faithful city, so upright! Justice used to lodge within her, but now, murderers.

Cross References

2 Samuel 8:15

David was king over all Israel; he dispensed justice and right to all his people.

2 Chronicles 19:9

He gave them this command: “Thus you shall act: in the fear of the Lord, with fidelity and with an undivided heart.

Nehemiah 11:1

The administrators took up residence in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one man in ten to reside in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the other nine would remain in the other cities.

Psalm 46:4

Though its waters rage and foam and mountains totter at its surging. Selah

Psalm 48:1

A psalm of the Korahites. A song.

Psalm 48:8

As when the east wind wrecks the ships of Tarshish!

Isaiah 1:22

Your silver is turned to dross, your wine is mixed with water.

Isaiah 26:10

The wicked, when spared, do not learn justice; in an upright land they act perversely, and do not see the majesty of the Lord.

Isaiah 48:2

Though you are named after the holy city and rely on the God of Israel, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, the people of Judah, his cherished plant; He waited for judgment, but see, bloodshed! for justice, but hark, the outcry!

Isaiah 59:14

Judgment is turned away, and justice stands far off; For truth stumbles in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter.

Isaiah 59:15

Fidelity is lacking, and whoever turns from evil is despoiled. The Lord saw this, and was aggrieved that there was no justice.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with crime; Your lips speak falsehood, and your tongue utters deceit.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and then becomes the wife of another, Can she return to the first? Would not this land be wholly defiled? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers, and yet you would return to me!—oracle of the Lord.

Hosea 2:5

Or I will strip her naked, leaving her as on the day of her birth; I will make her like the wilderness, make her like an arid land, and let her die of thirst.

Habakkuk 1:4

This is why the law is numb and justice never comes, For the wicked surround the just; this is why justice comes forth perverted.

Zechariah 8:3

Thus says the Lord: I have returned to Zion, and I will dwell within Jerusalem; Jerusalem will be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain.

Luke 13:34

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They put to death those who foretold the coming of the righteous one, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.

Hebrews 12:22

No, you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering,

Revelation 11:2

But exclude the outer court of the temple; do not measure it, for it has been handed over to the Gentiles, who will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

Revelation 11:8

Their corpses will lie in the main street of the great city, which has the symbolic names “Sodom” and “Egypt,” where indeed their Lord was crucified.

Revelation 17:1

Then one of the seven angels who were holding the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come here. I will show you the judgment on the great harlot who lives near the many waters.