Isaiah 10:1 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition WOE TO those [judges] who issue unrighteous decrees, and to the magistrates who keep causing unjust and oppressive decisions to be recorded, American Standard Version (1901) Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness; Common English Bible Doom to those who pronounce wicked decrees, and keep writing harmful laws Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to those who make unfair laws, and who, when writing, write injustice: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version WOE to them that make wicked laws: and, when they write, write injustice: |
The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him: and the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Navot, in the presence of the people, saying, Navot did curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.
No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: *It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope;
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
For the statutes of `Omri 1 are kept, and all the works of the house of Ach'av. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.*
Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
*Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'
Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
*Woe to you, Kora'zin! Woe to you, Beit-Tzaidah! For if the mighty works had been done in Tzor and Tzidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
*Woe to you, scribes and Perushim, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the Torah: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
*Woe to you, scribes and Perushim, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
*Woe to you, scribes and Perushim, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,
The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.*
Woe to you Torah scholars! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn't enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.*
When therefore the chief Kohanim and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, *Crucify! Crucify!* Pilate said to them, *Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.*
His parents said these things because they feared the Judeans; for the Judeans had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Messiah, he would be put out of the synagogue.
Woe to them! For they went in the way of Kayin, and ran riotously in the error of Bil`am for hire, and perished in Korach's rebellion.