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
There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.
Isaiah 5:23
Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.
Isaiah 10:1
Woe to those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.
Psalm 82:2
Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment -- there is the wicked; and the place of righteousness -- there is the wicked.
Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.
Amos 5:7
Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,
Micah 3:9
Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert.
Micah 7:3
On the evil are both hands to do it well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.
Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore doth law cease, And judgment doth not go forth for ever, For the wicked is compassing the righteous, Therefore wrong judgment goeth forth.
Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to the rebellious and polluted, The oppressing city!