Isaiah 59:4

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Isaiah 59:4

No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

Job 15:35

Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

Isaiah 30:12

For this cause the Holy One of Israel says, Because you will not give ear to this word, and are looking for help in ways of deceit and evil, and are putting your hope in them:

Jeremiah 7:4

Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.

Jeremiah 7:8

See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.

Job 15:31

Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

Psalm 7:13-14

He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

Psalm 62:4

Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

Psalm 62:10

Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

Proverbs 4:16

For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

Isaiah 59:13-14

We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.

Isaiah 59:16

And he saw that there was no man, and was surprised that there was no one to take up their cause: so his arm gave salvation, and he made righteousness his support.

Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.

Jeremiah 5:4-5

Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

Ezekiel 22:29-31

The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

Micah 2:1

A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

Micah 7:2-5

The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.

James 1:15

Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Isaiah 59:4

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Calleth

Trust

And speak

Isaiah 59:3

Psalm 62:4

They conceive

General references

Acts 24:9

Bible References

Calleth

And he saw that there was no man, and was surprised that there was no one to take up their cause: so his arm gave salvation, and he made righteousness his support.

The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.

Trust

For this cause the Holy One of Israel says, Because you will not give ear to this word, and are looking for help in ways of deceit and evil, and are putting your hope in them:

Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.

And speak

For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

They conceive

We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.

Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

General references

That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.

And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.

Then he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who are designing evil, who are teaching evil ways in this town:

And the Jews were in agreement with his statement, saying that these things were so.