Isaiah 5:20

Tree of Life Version

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!

Cross References

Job 17:12

turn night into day; in the face of darkness light is near.

Exodus 23:7

Stay far away from a false charge. Do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the guilty.

Proverbs 17:15

Acquitting the wicked and condemning the righteous: both are an abomination to Adonai.

Proverbs 4:17

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Isaiah 24:9

They no longer drink wine with song. Liquor is bitter to those drinking it.

Isaiah 29:21

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.

Isaiah 30:10

They say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right. Speak to us smooth words. Prophesy illusions.

Isaiah 32:5

No longer will a fool be called noble, or a scoundrel said to be a gentleman.

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.’”

Amos 5:7

You who turn justice to wormwood threw righteousness to the ground.

Micah 3:2

You haters of good and lovers of evil, you are robbing their skin from them and their flesh from their bones.”

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore, Torah has no effect, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked encircle the righteous Therefore justice comes out perverted.

Malachi 2:17

You wearied Adonai with your words. Yet you say: “How did we weary Him?” When you say: “Everyone doing evil is good in the sight of Adonai, and He delights in them.” Or, “Where is the God of justice?”

Malachi 3:15

So now we are calling the proud blessed. Those who practice iniquity are built up. Indeed, they have tested God, and escaped!”

Luke 16:15

But He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before the people, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable in God’s sight.”

Deuteronomy 25:1

“Suppose there is a dispute between people and they approach the court, the judges hear their case, and declare one righteous and the other guilty.

2 Peter 2:1

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies. They will even deny the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction upon themselves.