Isaiah 59:14

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Summary

And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

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No one makes claims justly;
no one pleads honestly.
They trust in empty and worthless words;
they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe
and deprive the innocent of justice.

Woe to those enacting crooked statutes
and writing oppressive laws

“How long will you judge unjustly
and show partiality to the wicked?Selah

I also observed under the sun: there is wickedness at the place of judgment and there is wickedness at the place of righteousness.

Like a cage full of birds,
so their houses are full of deceit.
Therefore they have grown powerful and rich.

Those who turn justice into wormwood
throw righteousness to the ground.

Listen to this, leaders of the house of Jacob,
you rulers of the house of Israel,
who abhor justice
and pervert everything that is right,

Both hands are good at accomplishing evil:
the official and the judge demand a bribe;
when the powerful man communicates his evil desire,
they plot it together.

This is why the law is ineffective
and justice never emerges.
For the wicked restrict the righteous;
therefore, justice comes out perverted.

Woe to the city that is rebellious

and defiled,

the oppressive city!