Isaiah 58:2

Tree of Life Version

Yet they seek Me day to day and delight to know My ways, as if they were a nation that did right, and had not forsaken their God’s decree. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”

Cross References

Psalm 119:15

I will meditate on Your precepts, and regard Your ways.

Psalm 119:151

You are near, Adonai, and all Your mitzvot are truth.

Psalm 119:87

They almost finished me off on earth. But I—I will not forsake Your precepts.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Adonai, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.

Isaiah 1:28

But there will be a crushing of transgressors and sinners together. Forsaking Adonai, they will be consumed.

Isaiah 1:4

Oy , a sinful nation, a people weighed down with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, sons dealing corruptly! They have abandoned Adonai. They have despised Israel’s Holy One. They have turned backwards.

Isaiah 29:13

So Adonai says, “Since these people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, yet their hearts are far from Me, and their fear of Me is a mitzvah taught by men.

Isaiah 42:20

You have seen many things, but you do not pay attention. Though ears are open, no one hears.”

Isaiah 57:12

I will expose your ‘righteousness’, and your deeds—they will not profit you.

Isaiah 57:3

But as for you, come here, you children of a sorceress, offspring of an adulterer and prostitute.

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 42:2

and said to the prophet Jeremiah, “Please, let our petition be presented before you, and pray to Adonai your God on our behalf, for all this remnant—for we who are left are but a few out of many, as you are seeing with your own eyes—

Jeremiah 42:20

For you have led your own souls in error, since it was you who sent me to Adonai your God, saying: ‘Pray to Adonai our God on our behalf, and in accord with all that Adonai our God will say, so declare to us, and we will do it.

Jeremiah 7:10

and then come and stand before Me in this house that bears My Name, saying, ‘We are saved!’—so that you may keep doing all these abominations?

Jeremiah 7:9

Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and perjury, and offer incense to Baal and walk after other gods whom you have not known—

Ezekiel 20:3

“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel. Say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live’—it is a declaration of Adonai—‘I will not be inquired of by you.’

Amos 5:18

Oy to you—longing for the Day of Adonai! What would it be for you? The Day of Adonai will be darkness and not light.

Mark 12:14

They come and say to Him, “Teacher, we know that You are honest, and what others think doesn’t concern You. You don’t look at men’s appearance, but teach the way of God according to the truth. Is it permitted to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

Mark 6:20

For Herod was in awe of John and kept him safe, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man. When he listened to John he was confused, but he still listened gladly.

John 5:35

He was the lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice for a while in his light.

Titus 1:16

They claim to know God but their deeds deny Him. They are despicable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.

James 4:8

Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded!