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
No man regardeth righteousness, and no man judgeth truly. Every man hopeth in vain things, and imagineth deceit; conceiveth weariness, and bringeth forth evil.
Isaiah 5:23
These give sentence with the ungodly for rewards, but condemn the just cause of the righteous.
Isaiah 10:1
Woe be unto you that make unrighteous laws, and devise things, which be too hard for to keep:
Psalm 82:2
How long will ye give wrong judgment, and accept the persons of the ungodly? Selah.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
Moreover, I saw under the sun ungodliness in the stead of judgment, and iniquity instead of righteousness.
Jeremiah 5:27
And like as a net is full of birds, so are their houses full of that which they have gotten with falsity and deceit. Hereof cometh their great substance and riches,
Amos 5:7
Ye turn the law to wormwood, and cast down righteousness into the ground.
Micah 3:9
O hear this, ye rulers of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: ye that abhor the thing that is lawful, and wrest aside the thing that is straight;
Micah 7:3
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.
Habakkuk 1:4
for the law is torn in pieces, and there can no right judgment go forth. And why? The ungodly is more set by than the righteous: this is the cause that wrong judgment proceedeth.
Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to the abominable, filthy and cruel city: