Isaiah 5:23 - King James 2000 Who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the justice of the righteous from him! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Who justify and acquit the guilty for a bribe, but take away the rights of the innocent and righteous from them! American Standard Version (1901) that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! Common English Bible who spare the guilty for bribes, and rob the innocent of their rights. Catholic Public Domain Version For you justify an impious man in exchange for bribes, and you carry away the justice of a just man from him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him. |
And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, so that he died.
Therefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemns the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.
He that says unto the wicked, you are righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come before them.
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write misfortune which they have prescribed;
To turn aside the needy from justice, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.
The schemes also of the schemer are evil: he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks justly.
Yea, truth fails; and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Her heads judge for reward, and her priests teach for hire, and her prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us.
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a bribe; and the great man, he utters his evil desire: so they weave it together.
That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the temple and the altar.
You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not show partiality, neither take a bribe: for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.