Isaiah 59:4

The Scriptures 2009

No one calls for righteousness, and no one pleads for truth. They trust in emptiness and speak worthlessness; they conceive trouble and bring forth wickedness.

Cross References

Job 15:31

Let him not trust in falsehood, deceiving himself, for falsehood is his reward.

Job 15:35

They conceive trouble and bring forth wickedness, even their womb prepares deception.”

Psalm 12:3

יהוה does cut off all flattering lips, A tongue that speaks swelling words,

Psalm 62:10

Do not trust in oppression. And do not become vain in robbery; If riches increase, Do not set your heart on them.

Psalm 62:4

They plotted to topple him from his high position; They delight in lies; They bless with their mouth, But in their heart they curse. Selah.

Psalm 7:15

He has made a pit and dug it out, And falls into the ditch 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 making unrighteous inscriptions, and writers who have prescribed toil,

Isaiah 26:18

We have conceived, we writhed in pain; we have given birth to wind. We have not accomplished 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 She’ol we have effected a vision. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it does not come to us, for we have made lying our refuge, and under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

Isaiah 29:20

For the ruthless one is brought to naught, the scorner is consumed, and all who watch for evil shall be cut off,

Isaiah 30:12

Therefore thus said the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them,

Isaiah 30:9

that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who refuse to hear the Torah of יהוה,

Isaiah 33:11

“You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble, your spirit devours you like fire.

Isaiah 44:20

Feeding on ashes, a deceived heart turns him aside, and he does not deliver his being, nor says, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Isaiah 47:10

“And you have trusted in your evil, you have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge have led you astray. And you have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is none but me.’

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who draw crookedness with cords of falsehood, and sin as with wagon ropes,

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of יהוה of hosts is the house of Yisra’ĕl, and the man of Yehuḏah is His pleasant plant. He looked for right-ruling, but see, oppression; for righteousness, but see, weeping.

Isaiah 59:15

And the truth is lacking, and whoever turns away from evil makes himself a prey. And יהוה saw, and it displeased Him that there was no right-ruling.

Isaiah 59:16

And He saw that there was no man, and was astonished that there was no intercessor. So His own arm saved for Him, and His righteousness upheld him.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands have been defiled with blood, and your fingers with crookedness; your lips have spoken falsehood, your tongue mutters unrighteousness.

Isaiah 64:7

And there is no one who calls on Your Name, who stirs himself up to be strengthened in You; for You have hidden Your face from us, and have consumed us because of our crookednesses.

Isaiah 9:15

Elder and highly respected, he is the head; the prophet who teaches falsehood, he is the tail.

Jeremiah 48:7

“For because you have trusted in your works and your treasures, you shall be captured. And Kemosh shall go forth into exile, his priests and his heads together.

Jeremiah 5:1

“Diligently search the streets of Yerushalayim, and please look, and know and seek in her open places if you find a man, if there is anyone doing right-ruling, seeking the truth, then I shall pardon her.

Jeremiah 7:4

“Do not trust in these false words, saying, ‘This is the Hĕḵal of יהוה, the Hĕḵal of יהוה, the Hĕḵal of יהוה!’

Jeremiah 7:8

“See, you are trusting in false words, which do not profit –

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of יהוה, you children of Yisra’ĕl, for יהוה has a case against the inhabitants of the land: “For there is no truth or loving-commitment or knowledge of Elohim in the land.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those plotting wickedness, and working out evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning they practise it, because it is in the might of their hand.

Acts 24:9

And the Yehuḏim also agreed, maintaining that these matters were so.

James 1:15

Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. And sin, when it has been accomplished, brings forth death.