Isaiah 5:18

New American Bible - revised edition

Ah! Those who tug at guilt with cords of perversity, and at sin as if with cart ropes!

Cross References

Psalm 10:11

Who say in their hearts, “God has forgotten, shows no concern, never bothers to look.”

Psalm 14:1

For the leader. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” Their deeds are loathsome and corrupt; not one does what is good.

Psalm 36:2

Sin directs the heart of the wicked man; his eyes are closed to the fear of God.

Proverbs 4:17

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Isaiah 28:15

You have declared, “We have made a covenant with death, with Sheol we have made a pact; When the raging flood passes through, it will not reach us; For we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have found a hiding place,”—

Jeremiah 23:10

The land is filled with adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, the pastures of the wilderness are withered. Theirs is an evil course, theirs is unjust power.

Jeremiah 23:14

But among Jerusalem’s prophets I saw something more shocking: Adultery, walking in deception, strengthening the power of the wicked, so that no one turns from evil; To me they are all like Sodom, its inhabitants like Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 23:24

Can anyone hide in secret without my seeing them?—oracle of the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth?—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 36:23

Each time Jehudi finished reading three or four columns, he would cut off the piece with a scribe’s knife and throw it into the fire in the brazier, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire in the brazier.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests teach on their own authority; Yet my people like it this way; what will you do when the end comes?

Ezekiel 13:22

Because you discourage the righteous with lies when I did not want them to be distressed, and encourage the wicked so they do not turn from their evil ways and save their lives,

Zephaniah 1:12

At that time, I will search Jerusalem with lamps, I will punish the people who settle like dregs in wine, Who say in their hearts, “The Lord will not do good, nor will he do harm.”

John 16:2

They will expel you from the synagogues; in fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God.

Acts 26:9

I myself once thought that I had to do many things against the name of Jesus the Nazorean,

Judges 17:13

Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, since I have the Levite as my priest.”

Judges 17:5

The man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and teraphim, and installed one of his sons, who became his priest.