Isaiah 29:21

Tree of Life Version

Those who make a man out to be guilty with a word, and trap him who reproves at the gate, and deny justice with meaninglessness.

Cross References

Psalm 127:5

Happy is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they speak with their enemies at the gate.

Proverbs 28:21

To show partiality is not good— yet for a piece of bread a man may do wrong.

Isaiah 10:1

Oy to those enacting unjust decrees and recording corrupt legislation,

Isaiah 32:7

The scoundrel’s methods are evil— he makes up wicked schemes to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.

Isaiah 5:20

Oy to those who call evil good and good evil, who present darkness as light and light as darkness, who present bitter as sweet, and sweet as bitter!

Isaiah 5:23

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

Isaiah 59:15

So now truth is missing, and whoever shuns evil becomes prey. Now when Adonai saw it, it was displeasing in His eyes that there was no justice.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said: “Come, let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely Torah from the kohen will not be lost, nor will counsel from the wise, nor will the word from the prophet. Come, let’s strike at him with the tongue, and pay no attention to any of his words.”

Jeremiah 36:29

About King Jehoiakim of Judah you will say, thus says Adonai: ‘You have burned this megillah , saying, “Why have you written in it, saying the king of Babylon will surely come and destroy this land and will bring an end to both man and beast from it?”’”

Ezekiel 13:19

You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and crumbs of bread, to kill those who should not die and to save those who should not live, by lying to My people, who listen to lies.’”

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.

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might trap Him with a word.

Matthew 26:15

and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they weighed out thirty shekels of silver for him.

Acts 3:14

But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you.

James 5:6

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous person—he does not resist you.

Judges 12:6

then they would say to him, “Say now, ‘Shibboleth,’” and he said “Sibboleth” since he could not pronounce it right, then they would seize him and slay him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of Ephraim fell.