Isaiah 1:23

Tree of Life Version

Your princes are rebellious and friends with thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and chases after rewards. They do not defend the orphan, nor does a widow’s case come to them.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:14

Furthermore, all the leading kohanim and the people became very unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. They defiled the House of Adonai, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.

Exodus 23:8

Take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight, and perverts the words of the righteous.

Proverbs 17:23

The wicked one receives a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.

Proverbs 29:24

An accomplice of a thief is his own enemy. He hears the oath but says nothing.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do good, seek justice, relieve the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.”

Isaiah 1:18

“Come now, let us reason together,” says Adonai. “Though your sins be like scarlet, they will be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they will become like wool.

Isaiah 1:22

Your silver has become dross, your wine diluted by water.

Isaiah 28:14

Therefore hear the word of Adonai, you scoffers, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem:

Isaiah 3:14

Adonai will enter into judgment with the elders of His people and with the princes: “You have devoured the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 30:1

“Oy , the rebellious children” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “Who carry out a plan, but not Mine, and make an alliance, but not of My Ruach, so they may add sin to sin,

Isaiah 33:15

One who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly, who refuses unjust gain by extortion, who shakes his hands free of bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking on evil.

Isaiah 5:23

who justify the wicked for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of justice!

Isaiah 65:2

I have stretched out My hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own thoughts.

Jeremiah 22:17

“But your eyes and your heart are only on your unjust gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and committing extortion and fraud.”

Jeremiah 32:32

because of all the evil the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done to provoke Me—they, their kings, their princes, their kohanim, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 4:17

Like keepers of a field they surround her, because she has been rebellious against Me.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Jeremiah 5:5

I will go to the distinguished and speak to them. Surely they know the way of Adonai, the ordinance of their God. But they too had broken the yoke and torn off the bonds.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them. A desert wolf will ravage them. A leopard watches over their cities. Everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces, For their rebellion is great, their backslidings frequent.

Ezekiel 12:2

“Son of man, you live in the midst of the rebellious house. They have eyes to see, but do not see, ears to hear, but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing at prey, spilling blood and destroying lives for dishonest gain.

Hosea 4:18

Their liquor has come to an end. They surely have practiced prostitution. Her rulers have deeply loved disgrace.

Hosea 5:10

The princes of Judah were like those who move a boundary mark. I pour out My fury on them like water.

Hosea 9:15

“All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I despised them. Because of their wicked practices, I will drive them out of My House. I will love them no more. All their princes are rebellious.

Amos 5:12

For I know your crimes are many and your sins countless— afflicting the righteous, taking bribes, and turning the needy aside at the gate.

Micah 3:11

Her leaders give judgment for a bribe. Her priests give direction for a price. Her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean on Adonai by saying: “Is not Adonai in our midst? No calamity will come upon us!”

Micah 3:9

Hear this, leaders of the house of Jacob, rulers of the house of Israel: You who abhor justice, and twist everything upright,

Micah 6:12

For the rich of the city are full of violence and its inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue in their mouth is deceit.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are diligent at doing evil. The official and the judge ask for a bribe. The distinguished man utters a desire of his soul. Thus they weave it together.

Zechariah 7:10

Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the outsider or the poor. Furthermore, do not let any of you devise evil against one another in your heart.’

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers those who extort a worker’s wage, or oppress the widow or an orphan, those who mislead a stranger. They do not fear Me,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Numbers 22:7

The elders of Moab and Midian left with divination fees in their hand. When they came to Balaam, they told him Balak’s words.

Matthew 21:13

And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of thieves’!”

Mark 11:17

And He began to teach them, saying, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’”

Luke 19:46

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’”

Luke 24:27

Then beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them the things written about Himself in all the Scriptures.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You are not to twist justice—you must not show partiality or take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and distorts the words of the righteous.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

1 Samuel 8:3

His sons, however, did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain—they took bribes and perverted justice.