Isaiah 59:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

And judgment is turned backward, and justice stands far off: for truth has fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

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  • Hab 1:4 : 4 Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth, for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.
  • Zeph 3:1-3 : 1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! 2 She did not obey the voice; she did not receive correction; she did not trust in the LORD; she did not draw near to her God. 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw the bones until the morning.
  • Amos 5:11 : 11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
  • Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Hear this, I pray you, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.
  • Mic 7:3-5 : 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. 4 The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of your watchmen and your visitation comes; now shall be their perplexity. 5 Do not trust in a friend, put no confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.
  • Ps 82:2-5 : 2 How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah. 3 Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy; rescue them from the hand of the wicked. 5 They do not know, nor do they understand; they walk in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
  • Eccl 3:16 : 16 Moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
  • Isa 1:21 : 21 How the faithful city has become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
  • Isa 5:23 : 23 Who justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
  • Isa 10:1-2 : 1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and who write out oppressive laws they have prescribed; 2 To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
  • Isa 59:4 : 4 No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
  • Jer 5:27-28 : 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and grown rich. 28 They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?
  • Amos 5:7 : 7 You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 59:15
    86%

    15Yes, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

  • Isa 59:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

    4No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

  • Isa 59:11-13
    3 verses
    78%

    11We all roar like bears, and mourn deeply like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

    12For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

    13In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  • Isa 59:8-9
    2 verses
    78%

    8The way of peace they do not know; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever walks therein shall not know peace.

    9Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but see obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

  • Hab 1:4
    78%

    4Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth, for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.

  • Ps 55:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10Day and night they go about it upon its walls; mischief and sorrow are in the midst of it.

    11Wickedness is in the midst of it; deceit and guile do not depart from its streets.

  • Ps 85:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

    11Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

  • Ps 89:14
    74%

    14Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne; mercy and truth shall go before your face.

  • Jer 5:1
    74%

    1Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who executes judgment, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.

  • Isa 1:21
    73%

    21How the faithful city has become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

  • Amos 5:7
    73%

    7You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

  • Zeph 3:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4Her prophets are light and treacherous people: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

    5The just LORD is in the midst of her; he will not do wrong: every morning he brings his judgment to light, he fails not; but the unjust know no shame.

  • Mic 3:9
    73%

    9Hear this, I pray you, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

  • Isa 10:2
    72%

    2To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • Hos 4:1
    72%

    1Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel, for the LORD has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

  • Isa 5:23
    72%

    23Who justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

  • Isa 28:6
    71%

    6And for a spirit of judgment to him who sits in judgment, and for strength to those who turn the battle to the gate.

  • Isa 16:5
    71%

    5And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit on it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hastening righteousness.

  • Isa 56:1
    71%

    1Thus says the LORD, Keep judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

  • Jer 9:3
    71%

    3And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.

  • Isa 3:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their speech and their actions are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory.

    9The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • Zech 8:16
    71%

    16These are the things that you shall do; Speak every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

  • Jer 7:28
    71%

    28But you shall say to them, This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the LORD their God, nor receive correction: truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

  • Dan 9:14
    71%

    14Therefore the LORD has watched over the calamity, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He does: for we have not obeyed His voice.

  • Ezek 9:9
    71%

    9Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the earth, and the LORD does not see.

  • Isa 1:4
    71%

    4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they have gone away backward.

  • Mic 3:11
    71%

    11The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.

  • Ps 94:15
    70%

    15But judgment shall return to righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

  • Isa 28:17
    70%

    17Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

  • Eccl 3:16
    70%

    16Moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

  • Amos 5:12
    70%

    12For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

  • Isa 3:14
    70%

    14The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their princes: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

  • Lam 5:16
    70%

    16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

  • Amos 5:24
    70%

    24But let judgment run down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

  • Prov 13:6
    70%

    6Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • Jer 5:28
    70%

    28They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.

  • Dan 9:7
    70%

    7O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us belongs confusion of face, as it is this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those near and those far off, through all the countries where You have driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against You.

  • Jer 5:30
    69%

    30A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

  • Isa 29:21
    69%

    21That make a man an offender by a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.

  • Jer 3:11
    69%

    11And the LORD said to me, Backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

  • Prov 21:7
    69%

    7The robbery of the wicked will destroy them, because they refuse to do justice.

  • Ps 11:3
    69%

    3If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?