Isaiah 10:1

New Century Version

How terrible it will be for those who make unfair laws, and those who write laws that make life hard for people.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:13

Two troublemakers sat across from Naboth and said in front of everybody that they had heard him speak against God and the king. So the people carried Naboth out of the city and killed him with stones.

Psalm 58:2

No, in your heart you plan evil; you think up violent crimes in the land.

Exodus 23:3

If a poor person is in court, you must not take his side just because he is poor.

Exodus 23:6

“You must not be unfair to a poor person when he is in court.

Isaiah 29:21

those who lie about others in court, those who trap people in court, those who lie and take justice from innocent people in court.

Isaiah 3:11

But how terrible it will be for the wicked! They will be punished for all the wrong they have done.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord presents his case against the elders and other leaders of his people: “You have burned the vineyard. Your houses are full of what you took from the poor.

Isaiah 5:11

How terrible it will be for people who rise early in the morning to look for strong drink, who stay awake late at night, becoming drunk with wine.

Isaiah 5:18

How terrible it will be for those people! They pull their guilt and sins behind them as people pull wagons with ropes.

Isaiah 5:23

They take money to set the guilty free and don’t allow good people to be judged fairly.

Isaiah 5:8

How terrible it will be for you who add more houses to your houses and more fields to your fields until there is no room left for other people. Then you are left alone in the land.

Isaiah 59:13

sinning and rejecting the Lord, turning away from our God, planning to hurt others and to disobey God, planning and speaking lies.

Isaiah 59:4

People take each other to court unfairly, and no one tells the truth in arguing his case. They accuse each other falsely and tell lies. They cause trouble and create more evil.

Jeremiah 22:13

“How terrible it will be for one who builds his palace by doing evil, who cheats people so he can build its upper rooms. He makes his own people work for nothing and does not pay them.

Amos 2:7

They walk on poor people as if they were dirt, and they refuse to be fair to those who are suffering. Fathers and sons have sexual relations with the same woman, and so they ruin my holy name.

Micah 6:16

This is because you obey the laws of King Omri and do all the things that Ahab’s family does; you follow their advice. So I will let you be destroyed. The people in your city will be laughed at, and other nations will make fun of you.

Habakkuk 2:12

“How terrible it will be for the nation that kills people to build a city, that wrongs others to start a town.

Habakkuk 2:15

“How terrible for the nation that makes its neighbors drink, pouring from the jug of wine until they are drunk so that it can look at their naked bodies.

Habakkuk 2:19

How terrible it will be for the one who says to a wooden statue, ‘Come to life!’ How terrible it will be for the one who says to a silent stone, ‘Get up!’ It cannot tell you what to do. It is only a statue covered with gold and silver; there is no life in it.

Habakkuk 2:6

But all the nations the Babylonians have hurt will laugh at them. They will make fun of the Babylonians and say, ‘How terrible it will be for the one that steals many things. How long will that nation get rich by forcing others to pay them?’

Habakkuk 2:9

“How terrible it will be for the nation that becomes rich by doing wrong, thinking they will live in a safe place and escape harm.

Matthew 11:21

He said, “How terrible for you, Korazin! How terrible for you, Bethsaida! If the same miracles I did in you had happened in Tyre and Sidon, those people would have changed their lives a long time ago. They would have worn rough cloth and put ashes on themselves to show they had changed.

Matthew 23:23

“How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You give to God one-tenth of everything you earn—even your mint, dill, and cumin. But you don’t obey the really important teachings of the law—justice, mercy, and being loyal. These are the things you should do, as well as those other things.

Matthew 23:27

“How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You are like tombs that are painted white. Outside, those tombs look fine, but inside, they are full of the bones of dead people and all kinds of unclean things.

Matthew 23:29

“How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets, and you show honor to the graves of those who lived good lives.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man will die, just as the Scriptures say. But how terrible it will be for the person who hands the Son of Man over to be killed. It would be better for him if he had never been born.”

Luke 11:52

“How terrible for you, you experts on the law. You have taken away the key to learning about God. You yourselves would not learn, and you stopped others from learning, too.”

John 19:6

When the leading priests and the guards saw Jesus, they shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” But Pilate answered, “Crucify him yourselves, because I find nothing against him.”

John 9:22

His parents said this because they were afraid of the elders, who had already decided that anyone who said Jesus was the Christ would be avoided.

Jude 1:11

It will be terrible for them. They have followed the way of Cain, and for money they have given themselves to doing the wrong that Balaam did. They have fought against God as Korah did, and like Korah, they surely will be destroyed.