Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your princes [are] rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them.
New American Standard Bible
And companions of thieves;
Everyone
And chases after rewards.
They
Nor does the widow’s plea come before them.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
friends of thieves.
They all love graft
and chase after bribes.
They do not defend the rights of the fatherless,
and the widow’s case never comes before them.
International Standard Version
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. All of them are lovers of bribes and are runners after gifts. They don't bring justice to orphans, and the widow's case never comes up for review in their court."
A Conservative Version
Thy rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They judge not the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.
American Standard Version
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Amplified
Your rulers are rebels
And companions of thieves;
Everyone loves bribes
And chases after gifts.
They do not defend the fatherless,
Nor does the widow’s cause come before them [instead they delay or turn a deaf ear].
Bible in Basic English
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
Darby Translation
thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not unto them.
Julia Smith Translation
Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.
King James 2000
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.
Modern King James verseion
your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards; they do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and gape for rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them.
NET Bible
Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.
New Heart English Bible
Your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They do not judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
The Emphasized Bible
Thy rulers, are unruly, and companions of thieves, Every one of the people, loveth a bribe, and runneth after rewards, - The fatherless, they do not vindicate, And, the plea of the widow, reacheth them not.
Webster
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 to them.
World English Bible
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.
Themes
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Are degrading
Earthly » Reward » Earthly, a source of temptation
Fatherless » The wicked » Judge not for
Rebellion against God » Connected with » Injustice and corruption
Reward » Spiritual crowns » Earthly, a source of temptation
Silver » Illustrative » Of good rulers
The Nation » Bribery » Condemned
Topics
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 1:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Purification Of Jerusalem
22 Your silver has become [as] dross; Your wine [is] diluted with waters. 23 Your princes [are] rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them. 24 Therefore, the declaration of the Lord Yahweh of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will be relieved of my enemies, and I will avenge myself on my foes.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Exodus 23:8
And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes [the] sighted blind and ruins [the] words of [the] righteous.
Micah 7:3
Their hands [are] upon evil, to do [it] well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe, and the great [man] utters the evil desire of his soul; and they weave [it] together.
Zechariah 7:10
You must not oppress [the] widow, [the] orphan, [the] foreigner, and [the] needy. You must not devise evil in your heart {against one another}.'
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not subvert justice; you shall not {show partiality}; and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe makes blind [the] eyes of [the] wise and misrepresents [the] words of [the] righteous.
2 Chronicles 24:17-21
Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.
2 Chronicles 36:14
All the leaders of the priests and the people likewise increased in unfaithfulness according to all the detestable things of the nations. And they polluted the house of Yahweh that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
Proverbs 17:23
The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, [in order] to pervert the ways of justice.
Proverbs 29:24
Being a partner with a thief is hating one's life; a curse he will hear, but not disclose.
Isaiah 3:14
Yahweh enters into judgment with the elders of his people and its princes. "And you! You have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is] in your houses!
Isaiah 10:1-2
Ah! Those who decree decrees of evil, and writers who have written harm,
Isaiah 33:15
He who walks [in] righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects [the] gain of extortion, who {refuses} bribe, who stops up his ears from hearing {bloodshed} and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.
Jeremiah 5:5
Let me go to the great, and let me speak with them, for they know the way of Yahweh, the law of their God." However, they together have broken [the] yoke, they have torn to pieces [the] bonds.
Jeremiah 5:28-29
They have grown fat, they have grown sleek, also, {their evil deeds have no limit}. They do not judge [with] justice, [the] legal cause of [the] orphan, or allow it to succeed, and [the] legal case of [the] poor, they do not defend.
Jeremiah 22:17
"But there is nothing [in] your eyes and your heart {except} your unlawful gain, and on shedding the blood of the innocent, and on committing oppression and extortion."
Ezekiel 22:6-12
Look! The princes of Israel, each [one] according to his strength, they are in you {for the shedding of blood}.
Daniel 9:5-6
we have sinned and we have done wrong and we acted wickedly and we rebelled and [have been] turning aside from your commandments and from your ordinances.
Hosea 4:18
When their drinking has ended, they surely indulge in sexual orgies. They love lewdness more than their glory.
Hosea 7:3-5
By their wickedness they make [the] king glad, and [the] officials by their treacheries.
Hosea 9:15
Every evil of theirs [began] at Gilgal, so I [began] to hate them there; because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them out from my house. I will love them no more; all their officials [are] rebels.
Micah 3:1-3
And I said, "Listen, O heads of Jacob and leaders of the house of Israel! [Is it] not for you to know justice?
Micah 3:11
Its rulers judge for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money. But they lean on Yahweh, saying, "[Is] not Yahweh in our midst? Disaster will not come upon us."
Malachi 3:5
"Then I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers, and against those who swear {falsely}, and against the oppressors of [the] hired worker [with his] wages, [the] widow and [the] orphan, and {the abusers of} [the] alien, and [yet] do not fear me," says Yahweh of hosts.
Matthew 21:13
And he said to them, "It is written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"
Mark 11:17
And he began to teach and was saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"
Luke 18:2-5
saying, "There was a certain judge in a certain town who did not fear God and did not respect people.
Luke 19:46
saying to them, "It is written, 'And my house will be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"
Acts 4:5-11
And it happened that on the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes came together in Jerusalem,