Isaiah 44:20

Revised Standard Version

He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Cross References

Job 15:2

“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

Job 15:31

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his recompense.

Psalm 102:9

For I eat ashes like bread, and mingle tears with my drink,

Psalm 115:4

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Psalm 144:11

Rescue me from the cruel sword, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Psalm 144:8

whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Proverbs 15:14

The mind of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

Isaiah 47:10

You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, “No one sees me”; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.”

Isaiah 57:11

Whom did you dread and fear, so that you lied, and did not remember me, did not give me a thought? Have I not held my peace, even for a long time, and so you do not fear me?

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing, and denying the Lord, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

Jeremiah 16:19

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited naught but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim herds the wind, and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a bargain with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.

Hosea 4:12

My people inquire of a thing of wood, and their staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the harlot.

Habakkuk 2:18

What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For the workman trusts in his own creation when he makes dumb idols!

Luke 15:16

And he would gladly have fed on the pods that the swine ate; and no one gave him anything.

Romans 1:25

because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.

1 Timothy 4:2

through the pretensions of liars whose consciences are seared,

2 Timothy 2:13

if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.

2 Timothy 3:13

while evil men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 13:14

and by the signs which it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast, it deceives those who dwell on earth, bidding them make an image for the beast which was wounded by the sword and yet lived;

Revelation 18:23

and the light of a lamp shall shine in thee no more; and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall be heard in thee no more; for thy merchants were the great men of the earth, and all nations were deceived by thy sorcery.

Revelation 20:3

and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years were ended. After that he must be loosed for a little while.