Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Bible References
General references
Isaiah 59:4
None called upon justice, and none judged in truth: trusting in vanity and speaking evil, they conceived labor and brought forth vanity.
Isaiah 5:23
Justifying the unjust on account of a gift, and they will take away the justice of the just from him.
Isaiah 10:1
Wo to those decreeing not decrees, and they wrote writings of labor;
Psalm 82:2
How long will ye judge wickedness, and ye will lift up the faces of the unjust? Silence.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
And yet I saw under the sun the place of judgment, there the unjust one; and the place of the just one, there the unjust one.
Jeremiah 5:27
As a cane full of birds, so their houses full of deceit: for this they were magnified and they will be rich.
Amos 5:7
Turning judgment to wormwood and they put down justice in the earth.
Micah 3:9
Hear now this, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and judges of the house of Israel abhorring judgment, and they will pervert all uprightness.
Micah 7:3
For doing evil with the hands to do well, the chief asking, and the judge, for peace; and the great one, he spake the mischief of his soul: and they will entangle it
Habakkuk 1:4
For this, the law will be slack, and judgment will not go forth forever: for the unjust surrounds the just; for this perverted judgment will go forth.
Zephaniah 3:1
Wo! to the wonderful and oppressing city being redeemed.