Isaiah 59:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

Truth

Micah 7:2

He that

1 John 3:11

Maketh himself a prey

Bible References

Truth

Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD and confess the God of Israel, but not in truth or right.

For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.

And you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.

Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;

The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net.

He that

You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."

Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

Maketh himself a prey

When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, they said to him, "Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?" And he said to them, "You know the fellow and his talk."

'The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to have charge in the house of the LORDover every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and neck irons.

The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.

And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, "He is out of his mind."

The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?"

And as he was saying these things in his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are out of your mind; your great learning is driving you out of your mind."

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.