Isaiah 44:20

Tree of Life Version

He is feeding on ashes. A deceived heart has led him astray, so he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t what is in my right hand a fraud?”

Cross References

Job 15:2

“Does a wise man answer with empty knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?

Job 15:31

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

Psalm 102:9

My enemies taunt me all day. My deriders use my name to curse.

Psalm 115:4

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

Psalm 144:11

Snatch me, deliver me out of the hand of foreigners, whose mouth speaks falsehood, whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.

Psalm 144:8

whose mouth speaks falsehood, whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.

Proverbs 15:14

A discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds 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, so you have said in your heart, “I am—there is no one else beside me!”

Isaiah 57:11

“Whom was it you dreaded and feared, so that you lied. But you did not remember Me or take it to heart? Have I not kept silent a long time— yet you do not fear Me?

Isaiah 59:13

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

Jeremiah 16:19

Adonai, my strength, my stronghold, my refuge in the day of affliction, to You will the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, futility and useless things.”

Hosea 12:1

“Ephraim surrounded Me with lies and the house of Israel with deceit.” Though Judah roams restlessly with God, yet he is faithful with holy things.

Hosea 4:12

My people consult their wooden idol and their divining rod informs them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have been a prostitute— out from under their God.

Habakkuk 2:18

What use is an idol when its craftsman has carved it? Or a metal image—a teacher of lies? For a craftsman has trusted in the image that he created, to make dumb idols.

Luke 15:16

And he was longing to fill up on the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one was giving him any.

Romans 1:25

They traded the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Romans 1:28

And just as they did not see fit to recognize God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what is not fitting.

1 Timothy 4:2

through the hypocrisy of false speakers—whose own conscience has been seared.

2 Timothy 2:13

if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil men and imposters will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was thrown down—the ancient serpent, called the devil and satan, who deceives the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 13:14

And he deceives those who dwell on the earth through the signs he is permitted to perform, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image in honor of the beast who has the sword wound yet lived.

Revelation 18:23

And the light of a lamp shall never shine in you again! And the voice of the bridegroom and bride shall never be heard in you again! For your businessmen were the tycoons of the world, for all the nations were deceived by your sorcery!

Revelation 20:3

He also threw him into the abyss and locked and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed. After these things, he must be released for a short while.