Isaiah 59:4

New King James Version

No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.

Cross References

Job 15:31

Let him not trust in futile things, deceiving himself, For futility will be his reward.

Job 15:35

They conceive trouble and bring forth futility; Their womb prepares deceit.”

Psalm 12:3

May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that speaks proud things,

Psalm 62:10

Do not trust in oppression, Nor vainly hope in robbery; If riches increase, Do not set your heart on them.

Psalm 62:4

They only consult to cast him down from his high position; They delight in lies; They bless with their mouth, But they curse inwardly. Selah

Psalm 7:15

He made a pit and dug it out, And has fallen into the ditch which he made.

Proverbs 4:16

For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; And their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.

Isaiah 10:1

“Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, Who write misfortune, Which they have prescribed

Isaiah 26:18

We have been with child, we have been in pain; We have, as it were, brought forth wind; We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth, Nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Isaiah 28:15

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, It will not come to us, For we have made lies our refuge, And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

Isaiah 29:20

For the terrible one is brought to nothing, The scornful one is consumed, And all who watch for iniquity are cut off—

Isaiah 30:12

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: “Because you despise this word, And trust in oppression and perversity, And rely on them,

Isaiah 30:9

That this is a rebellious people, Lying children, Children who will not hear the law of the Lord;

Isaiah 33:11

You shall conceive chaff, You shall bring forth stubble; Your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; A deceived heart has turned him aside; And he cannot deliver his soul, Nor say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Isaiah 47:10

“For you have trusted in your wickedness; You have said, ‘No one sees me’; Your wisdom and your knowledge have warped you; And you have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, And sin as if with a cart rope;

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; For righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.

Isaiah 59:15

So truth fails, And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him That there was no justice.

Isaiah 59:16

He saw that there was no man, And wondered that there was no intercessor; Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity.

Isaiah 64:7

And there is no one who calls on Your name, Who stirs himself up to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us, And have consumed us because of our iniquities.

Isaiah 9:15

The elder and honorable, he is the head; The prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.

Jeremiah 48:7

For because you have trusted in your works and your treasures, You also shall be taken. And Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, His priests and his princes together.

Jeremiah 5:1

“Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem; See now and know; And seek in her open places If you can find a man, If there is anyone who executes judgment, Who seeks the truth, And I will pardon her.

Jeremiah 7:4

Do not trust in these lying words, saying, ‘The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are these.’

Jeremiah 7:8

“Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot profit.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, You children of Israel, For the Lord brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “There is no truth or mercy Or knowledge of God in the land.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise iniquity, And work out evil on their beds! At morning light they practice it, Because it is in the power of their hand.

Acts 24:9

And the Jews also assented, maintaining that these things were so.

James 1:15

Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.