Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the scribes who write toil;
New American Standard Bible
And to those who constantly record
King James Version
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
Holman Bible
and writing oppressive laws
International Standard Version
"How terrible it will be for the one who enacts unjust decrees, for those who write oppressive laws that they have prescribed
A Conservative Version
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write perverseness,
American Standard Version
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;
Amplified
And to those [magistrates] who constantly record unjust and oppressive decisions,
Bible in Basic English
Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:
Darby Translation
Woe unto them that decree iniquitous decrees, and to the writers that prescribe oppression,
Julia Smith Translation
Wo to those decreeing not decrees, and they wrote writings of labor;
King James 2000
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write misfortune which they have prescribed;
Lexham Expanded Bible
Ah! Those who decree decrees of evil, and writers who have written harm,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Woe be unto you that make unrighteous laws, and devise things, which be too hard for to keep:
NET Bible
Those who enact unjust policies are as good as dead, those who are always instituting unfair regulations,
New Heart English Bible
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;
The Emphasized Bible
Alas! for them who ordain iniquitous decree, - And, busy writers, who make a business of writing mischief:
Webster
Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
World English Bible
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;
Youngs Literal Translation
Woe to those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.
Themes
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Corruption of
Courts of justice » Corruption and bribery often practised in
Courts of justice » The judgment of » Recorded in writing
Fatherless » God will » Punish those who oppress
Isaiah » Prophecies, reproofs, and exhortations of » Denounces judgments against false prophets
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 10:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Woes On The Wicked
1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the scribes who write toil; 2 to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to steal the right from the poor of My people, that widows may be their prey, and they rob the orphans!
Cross References
Psalm 94:20-21
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with You, which frames mischief by a law?
Isaiah 5:8
Woe to those who join house to house, laying field to field, until the end of space, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
Micah 3:1-4
And I said, Please hear, O heads of Jacob and magistrates of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these lift up a parable against him, and a mocking riddle to him, and say, Woe to him who increases what is not his! Until when, then, shall he load the pledges on himself?
Matthew 23:23
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and you have left undone the weightier matters of the Law, judgment, mercy, and faith. You ought to have done these and not to leave the other undone.
Luke 11:42-44
But woe to you, Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over judgment and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to leave the other undone.
Luke 11:52
Woe to you, lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and you have hindered those who were entering in.
Esther 3:10-13
And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
Psalm 58:2
Yes, in heart you work the evil, you weigh the violence of your hands in the land.
Isaiah 5:18
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin with cart ropes;
Isaiah 5:20-22
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who put darkness for light and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Jeremiah 22:13
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and he does not give him for his work;
Daniel 6:8-9
Now, O king, establish the ban and sign the writing, so that it may not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians which cannot be changed.
Micah 3:9-11
Please hear this, heads of the house of Jacob, and magistrates of the house of Israel, who hate justice and pervert all equity.
Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, so that I should make you a ruin and its people a hissing; therefore you shall bear the shame of My people.
Habakkuk 2:9
Woe to him who robs evil booty for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil!
Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
Habakkuk 2:15
Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring out your wineskin, and also making him drunk, that you may look on their nakedness!
Habakkuk 2:19
Woe to him who says to the wood. Awake! To a dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and no breath is in its midst.
Matthew 11:21
Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the powerful acts which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes!
Matthew 23:13-16
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.
Matthew 23:27
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outside, but inside they are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Matthew 23:29
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,
Matthew 26:24
The Son of Man goes, as it has been written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.
Luke 11:46-47
And He said, Woe to you also, lawyers! For you load men with burdens grievous to be carried, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
John 9:22
His parents spoke these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
John 19:6
Then when the chief priests and under-officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, Crucify! Crucify Him! Pilate said to them, You take Him and crucify Him, for I find no fault in him.
Jude 1:11
Woe to them! For they went the way of Cain, and gave themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.
1 Kings 21:13
And there came in two men, sons of Belial, and sat before him. And the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him out of the city and stoned him with stones so that he died.
Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked! For the evil doing of his hand will be done to him.
Isaiah 5:11
Woe to those who rise up early in the morning to go after strong drink; tarrying in the twilight while wine inflames them!