Isaiah 5:20

The Scriptures 1998

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Cross References

Job 17:12

They would turn night into day, saying that light is near, in the presence of darkness!

Exodus 23:7

“Keep yourself far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I do not declare the wrong right.

Proverbs 17:15

He who declares the wrong right, And he who condemns the righteous, Both of them are an abomination to יהוה.

Proverbs 4:17

For they have eaten the bread of wrongdoing, And they drink the wine of violence.

Isaiah 24:9

No more do they drink wine with a song, strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

Isaiah 29:21

those who make a man to sin in word, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the righteous with empty reasoning.

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right. Speak to us what is smooth, prophesy deceits.

Isaiah 32:5

A fool is no longer called noble, nor the scoundrel said to be respectable;

Ezekiel 13:19

“And you have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to put to death beings that should not die, and to keep alive beings who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies!”

Amos 5:7

“O you who are turning right-ruling to wormwood, and have cast down righteousness to the earth!”

Micah 3:2

you who are hating good and loving evil, tearing away the skin from My people, and the flesh from their bones,

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the Torah ceases, and right-ruling never goes forth. For the wrong hem in the righteous, so that right-ruling comes out twisted.

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied יהוה  with your words, and you have said, “In what way have we wearied Him?” In that you say, “Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of יהוה, and He is delighting in them,” or, “Where is the Elohim of right-ruling?”

Malachi 3:15

‘And now we are calling the proud blessed – not only are the doers of wrongness built up, but they also try Elohim and escape.’ ”

Luke 16:15

so He said to them, “You are those who declare yourselves righteous before men, but Elohim knows your hearts, because what is highly thought of among men is an abomination in the sight of Elohim.

Deuteronomy 25:1

“When there is a dispute between men, then they shall come unto judgment, and they shall be judged, and the righteous declared righteous and the wrongdoer declared wrong.

2 Peter 2:1

But there also came to be false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall secretly bring in destructive heresies, and deny the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.