Isaiah 59:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Job 15:35 : 35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.
  • Isa 30:12 : 12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them:
  • Jer 7:4 : 4 Do not trust in deceptive words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
  • Jer 7:8 : 8 Behold, you trust in deceptive words that cannot profit.
  • Ezek 22:29-31 : 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. 30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. 31 Therefore have I poured out My indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, says the Lord GOD.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.
  • Mic 7:2-5 : 2 The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt each his brother with a net. 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.
  • Jas 1:15 : 15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin: and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
  • Job 15:31 : 31 Let not him who is deceived trust in vanity, for emptiness shall be his recompense.
  • Isa 59:3 : 3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.
  • Isa 59:13-14 : 13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And judgment is turned backward, and justice stands far off: for truth has fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
  • Isa 59:16 : 16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
  • Jer 5:1 : 1 Run 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.
  • Jer 5:4-5 : 4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. 5 I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
  • Ps 7:13-14 : 13 He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors. 14 Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
  • Ps 62:4 : 4 They only plan to cast him down from his high position; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
  • Ps 62:10 : 10 Trust not in oppression, and do not become vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

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  • Isa 59:3
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    3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

  • Isa 59:13-15
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    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.

    14And judgment is turned backward, and justice stands far off: for truth has fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

    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.

  • Jer 9:3
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    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.

  • Jer 9:5-6
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    5And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

    6Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

  • Isa 59:5-9
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    5They hatch viper’s eggs and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies, and what is crushed breaks out into a viper.

    6Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

    7Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

    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.

  • Job 15:35
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    35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.

  • Ps 7:14
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    14Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

  • Mic 7:2-3
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    2The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt each his brother with a net.

    3That 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.

  • Hos 4:1-2
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    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.

    2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • Rom 3:11-13
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    11'There is none who understands, there is none who seeks after God.'

    12'They have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one.'

    13'Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of vipers is under their lips.'

  • Jer 5:28
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    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.

  • Isa 57:4
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    4Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • Ps 14:3-4
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    3They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.

    4Do all the workers of iniquity have no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?

  • Jer 7:8
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    8Behold, you trust in deceptive words that cannot profit.

  • Ps 144:8
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    8Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • Ps 58:2-3
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    2Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

    3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

  • Ps 36:3
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    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

  • Hab 1:4
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    4Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth, for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.

  • Ps 53:3
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    3Every one of them has turned back; they have altogether become filthy; there is none who does good, no, not one.

  • Hos 10:4
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    4They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springs up as poison in the furrows of the field.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11Wickedness is in the midst of it; deceit and guile do not depart from its streets.

  • Isa 64:7
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    7And there is none who calls upon your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.

  • Ps 53:1
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    1The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.

  • Ps 12:2
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    2They speak vanity everyone with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

  • Prov 1:17
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    17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

  • Isa 3:9
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    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.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20For they speak not peace; but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

  • Hos 7:3
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    3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

  • Ps 64:5
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    5They encourage themselves in an evil matter; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

  • Mic 3:11
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    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.

  • Jer 6:13
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    13For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

  • Isa 5:23
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    23Who justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and vanity.