Isaiah 1:23

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Summary

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Companions

Every

They judge

Luke 18:2

General references

Bible References

Companions

Whoso keepeth company with a thief, hateth his own soul; he heareth blasphemies, and telleth it not forth.

And said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.'"

And he taught, saying unto them, "Is it not written, how that my house shall be called 'The house of prayer unto all nations?' But ye have made it a den of thieves."

saying unto them, "It is written, 'My house is the house of prayer.' But ye have made it a den of thieves."

Every

He that leadeth a godly life - say I - and speaketh the truth; He that abhorreth to do violence and deceit; he that keepeth his hand that he touch no reward; which stoppeth his ears, that he hear no counsel against the innocent; which holdeth down his eyes, that he see none evil.

Thou shalt take no gifts, for gifts blind the seeing and pervert the words of the righteous.

Wrest not the law, nor know any person, neither take any reward: for gifts blind the wise and pervert the words of the righteous.

The ungodly taketh gifts out of the bosom, to wrest the ways of judgment.

Nevertheless, as for thine eyes and thine heart, they look upon covetousness, to shed innocent blood, and to do wrong and violence.'"

Yea, gifts have been received in thee to shed blood. Thou hast taken usury and increase, thou hast oppressed thy neighbours by extortion, and forgotten me, sayeth the LORD God.

Their drunkenness hath put them back, and brought them to whoredom. Their rulers love rewards; "Bring," say they, to their own shame.

yet they say they do well when they do evil. As the prince will, so sayeth the judge: that he may do him a pleasure again. The great man speaketh what his heart desireth; and the hearers allow him.

They judge

Woe be unto you that make unrighteous laws, and devise things, which be too hard for to keep:

hereof are they fat and wealthy, and are run away from me with shameful blasphemies. They minister not the law, they make no end of the fatherless cause, they judge not the poor according to equity.

Do the widow, the fatherless, the stranger, and poor no wrong: and let no man imagine evil against his brother in his heart."

I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

saying, "There was a Judge in a certain city, which feared not God neither regarded man.

General references

Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child:

When there is strife between men, let them come unto the law, and let the judges justify the righteous and condemn the trespasser.

The ungodly taketh gifts out of the bosom, to wrest the ways of judgment.

With thy mouth defend the thing that is lawful and right, and the cause of the poor and helpless.