Isaiah 59:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Job 15:35 : 35 Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.
  • Isa 30:12 : 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:
  • Jer 7:4 : 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.
  • Jer 7:8 : 8 See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.
  • Ezek 22:29-31 : 29 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. 30 And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one. 31 And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.
  • Mic 2:1 : 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.
  • Mic 7:2-5 : 2 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. 3 Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted. 4 The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them. 5 Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.
  • Jas 1:15 : 15 Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.
  • Job 15:31 : 31 Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.
  • Isa 59:3 : 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.
  • Isa 59:13-14 : 13 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. 14 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.
  • Isa 59:16 : 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.
  • Jer 5:1 : 1 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.
  • Jer 5:4-5 : 4 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. 5 I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
  • Ps 7:13-14 : 13 He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire. 14 That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.
  • Ps 62:4 : 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.)
  • Ps 62:10 : 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.
  • Prov 4:16 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Isa 59:3
    80%

    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.

  • Isa 59:13-15
    3 verses
    78%

    13 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.

    14 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.

    15 Yes, faith is gone; and he whose heart is turned from evil comes into the power of the cruel: and the Lord saw it, and he was angry that there was no one to take up their cause.

  • Jer 9:3
    77%

    3 Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

  • Jer 9:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5 Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

    6 There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

  • Isa 59:5-9
    5 verses
    75%

    5 They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.

    6 Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.

    7 Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

    8 They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.

    9 For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.

  • Job 15:35
    75%

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

  • Ps 7:14
    75%

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

  • Ps 5:9
    74%

    9 For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

  • Mic 7:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 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.

    3 Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

  • Hos 4:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.

    2 There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

  • Rom 3:11-13
    3 verses
    73%

    11 Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

    12 They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

    13 Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

  • Jer 5:28
    73%

    28 They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

  • Isa 57:4
    73%

    4 Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

  • Ps 14:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.

    4 Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

  • Jer 7:8
    72%

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

  • Ps 144:8
    72%

    8 In whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.

  • Ps 58:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2 The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

    3 The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

  • Ps 36:3
    72%

    3 In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

  • Hab 1:4
    72%

    4 For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.

  • Ps 53:3
    72%

    3 Every one of them has gone back; they are unclean: there is not one who does good, no, not one.

  • Hos 10:4
    72%

    4 Their words are foolish; they make agreements with false oaths, so punishment will come up like a poison-plant in a ploughed field.

  • Ps 59:12
    72%

    12 Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

  • Mic 6:12
    72%

    12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

  • Ps 55:11
    71%

    11 Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

  • Isa 64:7
    71%

    7 But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.

  • Ps 53:1
    71%

    1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath. Maschil. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

  • Ps 12:2
    71%

    2 Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

  • Prov 1:17
    71%

    17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

  • Isa 3:9
    71%

    9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • Ps 35:20
    71%

    20 For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

  • Ps 50:19
    71%

    19 You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.

  • Hos 7:3
    71%

    3 In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.

  • Ps 64:5
    71%

    5 They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

  • Mic 3:11
    70%

    11 Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

  • Jer 6:13
    70%

    13 For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.

  • Isa 5:23
    70%

    23 Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

  • Ps 10:7
    70%

    7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.