Isaiah 1:23

New American Bible - revised edition

Your princes are rebels and comrades of thieves; Each one of them loves a bribe and looks for gifts. The fatherless they do not defend, the widow’s plea does not reach them.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:14

Likewise all the princes of Judah, the priests, and the people added treachery to treachery, practicing all the abominations of the nations and defiling the Lord’s house which he had consecrated in Jerusalem. The Fall of Judah.

Exodus 23:8

Never take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and distorts the words of the just.

Proverbs 17:23

A guilty person takes out a bribe from the pocket, thus perverting the course of justice.

Proverbs 29:24

Partners of a thief hate themselves; they hear the imprecation but do not testify.

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do good. Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, hear the orphan’s plea, defend the widow.

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, let us set things right, says the Lord: Though your sins be like scarlet, they may become white as snow; Though they be red like crimson, they may become white as wool.

Isaiah 1:22

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

Isaiah 28:14

Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem:

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord enters into judgment with the people’s elders and princes: You, you who have devoured the vineyard; the loot wrested from the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 30:1

Ah! Rebellious children, oracle of the Lord, Who carry out a plan that is not mine, who make an alliance I did not inspire, thus adding sin upon sin;

Isaiah 33:15

Whoever walks righteously and speaks honestly, who spurns what is gained by oppression, Who waves off contact with a bribe, who stops his ears so as not to hear of bloodshed, who closes his eyes so as not to look on evil—

Isaiah 5:23

Those who acquit the guilty for bribes, and deprive the innocent of justice!

Isaiah 65:2

I have stretched out my hands all day to a rebellious people, Who walk in a way that is not good, following their own designs;

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own gain, On shedding innocent blood and practicing oppression and extortion.

Jeremiah 32:32

for all the evil the Israelites and Judahites have done to provoke me—they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 4:17

Like watchers in the fields they surround her, for she has rebelled against me—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:5

Let me go to the leaders and speak with them; For they must know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God. But, one and all, they have broken the yoke, torn off the harness.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore, lions from the forest slay them, wolves of the desert ravage them, Leopards keep watch round their cities: all who come out are torn to pieces, For their crimes are many, their rebellions numerous.

Ezekiel 12:2

Son of man, you live in the midst of a rebellious house; they have eyes to see, but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear. They are such a rebellious house!

Ezekiel 22:27

Within her, her officials are like wolves tearing prey, shedding blood and destroying lives to extort profit.

Hosea 4:18

When their drinking is over, they give themselves to prostitution; they love shame more than their honor.

Hosea 5:10

The princes of Judah have become like those who move a boundary line; Upon them I will pour out my wrath like water.

Hosea 9:15

All their misfortune began in Gilgal; yes, there I rejected them. Because of their wicked deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no longer; all their princes are rebels.

Amos 5:12

Yes, I know how many are your crimes, how grievous your sins: Oppressing the just, accepting bribes, turning away the needy at the gate.

Micah 3:11

Its leaders render judgment for a bribe, the priests teach for pay, the prophets divine for money, While they rely on the Lord, saying, “Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No evil can come upon us!”

Micah 3:9

Hear this, you leaders of the house of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel! You who abhor justice, and pervert all that is right;

Micah 6:12

You whose wealthy are full of violence, whose inhabitants speak falsehood with deceitful tongues in their mouths!

Micah 7:3

Their hands succeed at evil; the prince makes demands, The judge is bought for a price, the powerful speak as they please.

Zechariah 7:10

Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the resident alien or the poor; do not plot evil against one another in your hearts.

Malachi 3:5

I will draw near to you for judgment, and I will be swift to bear witness Against sorcerers, adulterers, and perjurers, those who deprive a laborer of wages, Oppress a widow or an orphan, or turn aside a resident alien, without fearing me, says the Lord of hosts.

Numbers 22:7

So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian, themselves experts in divination, left and went to Balaam, to whom they gave Balak’s message.

Matthew 21:13

And he said to them, “It is written: ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a den of thieves.”

Mark 11:17

Then he taught them saying, “Is it not written: ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples’? But you have made it a den of thieves.”

Luke 19:46

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.’”

Luke 24:27

Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them what referred to him in all the scriptures.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You must not distort justice: you shall not show partiality; you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes even of the wise and twists the words even of the just.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

1 Samuel 8:3

His sons did not follow his example, but looked to their own gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.