Psalm 82:5

New International Reader's Version

“You leaders don’t know anything. You don’t understand anything. You are in the dark about what is right. Law and order have been destroyed all over the world.

Cross References

Job 8:9

After all, we were born only yesterday. So we don’t know anything. Our days on this earth are like a shadow that disappears.

Psalm 11:3

When law and order are being destroyed, what can godly people do?”

Psalm 14:4

Do all these people who do evil know nothing? They eat up my people as if they were eating bread. They never call out to the Lord.

Psalm 53:4

Don’t these people who do evil know anything? They eat up my people as if they were eating bread. They never call out to God for help.

Psalm 75:3

When the earth and all its people tremble, I keep everything from falling to pieces.

Psalm 99:1

The Lord rules. Let the nations tremble. He sits on his throne between the cherubim. Let the earth shake.

Proverbs 1:29

You hated knowledge. You didn’t choose to have respect for the Lord.

Proverbs 2:13

Men like that have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways.

Proverbs 4:19

But the way of those who do what is wrong is like deep darkness. They don’t know what makes them trip and fall.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The eyes of a wise person see things clearly. A person who is foolish lives in darkness. But I finally realized that death catches up with both of them.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

Here’s something else I saw on earth. Where people should be treated right, they are treated wrong. Where people should be treated fairly, they are treated unfairly.

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord who rules over all is the nation of Israel. The people of Judah are the vines he took delight in. He kept looking for them to do what is fair. But all he saw was blood being spilled. He kept looking for them to do what is right. But all he heard were cries of suffering.

Isaiah 59:9

We aren’t being treated fairly. We haven’t been set free yet. The God who always does what is right hasn’t come to help us. We look for light, but we see nothing but darkness. We look for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.

Micah 3:1

Then I said, “Listen, you leaders of Jacob’s people! Pay attention, you rulers of Israel! You should want to judge others fairly.

John 12:35

Then Jesus told them, “You are going to have the light just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light. Do this before darkness catches up with you. Whoever walks in the dark does not know where they are going.

John 3:19

Here is the judgment. Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light. They loved darkness because what they did was evil.

Romans 1:28

They didn’t think it was important to know God. So God let them continue to have evil thoughts. They did things they shouldn’t do.

2 Timothy 2:19

But God’s solid foundation stands firm. Here is the message written on it. “The Lord knows who his own people are.” (Numbers 16:5) Also, “All who say they believe in the Lord must turn away from evil.”

1 John 2:11

But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness. They walk around in the darkness. They don’t know where they are going. The darkness has made them blind.