Isaiah 1:22

New English Translation

Your silver has become scum, your beer is diluted with water.

Cross References

Psalm 119:119

You remove all the wicked of the earth like slag. Therefore I love your rules.

Isaiah 1:21

How tragic that the once-faithful city has become a prostitute! She was once a center of justice, fairness resided in her, but now only murderers.

Isaiah 1:23

Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.

Hosea 4:18

They consume their alcohol, then engage in cult prostitution; they dearly love their shameful behavior.

Hosea 6:4

What am I going to do with you, O Ephraim? What am I going to do with you, O Judah? For your faithfulness is as fleeting as the morning mist; it disappears as quickly as dawn’s dew!

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.