Isaiah 59:4 Cross References
Isaiah 59:4
4: No one cares about being fair and honest. Their lawsuits are based on lies. They spend their time plotting evil deeds and then doing them.
Job 15:35
- They conceive trouble and evil, and their hearts give birth only to deceit."
James 1:15
- These evil desires lead to evil actions, and evil actions lead to death.
Micah 7:2
- The godly people have all disappeared; not one fair-minded person is left on the earth. They are all murderers, even setting traps for their own brothers.
- They go about their evil deeds with both hands. How skilled they are at using them! Officials and judges alike demand bribes. The people with money and influence pay them off, and together they scheme to twist justice.
- Even the best of them is like a brier; the straightest is more crooked than a hedge of thorns. But your judgment day is coming swiftly now. Your time of punishment is here.
- Don't trust anyone--not your best friend or even your wife!
Isaiah 30:12
- This is the reply of the Holy One of Israel: "Because you despise what I tell you and trust instead in oppression and lies,
Jeremiah 7:4
- But do not be fooled by those who repeatedly promise your safety because the Temple of the LORD is here.
Jeremiah 7:8
- " `Do you think that because the Temple is here you will never suffer? Don't fool yourselves!
Proverbs 4:16
- for evil people cannot sleep until they have done their evil deed for the day. They cannot rest unless they have caused someone to stumble.
Isaiah 59:3
- Your hands are the hands of murderers, and your fingers are filthy with sin. Your mouth is full of lies, and your lips are tainted with corruption.
Isaiah 59:16
- He was amazed to see that no one intervened to help the oppressed. So he himself stepped in to save them with his mighty power and justice.
Jeremiah 5:4
- Then I said, "But what can we expect from the poor and ignorant? They don't know the ways of the LORD. They don't understand what God expects of them.
- I will go and speak to their leaders. Surely they will know the LORD's ways and what God requires of them." But the leaders, too, had utterly rejected their God.
Micah 2:1
- How terrible it will be for you who lie awake at night, thinking up evil plans. You rise at dawn and hurry to carry out any of the wicked schemes you have power to accomplish.
Ezekiel 22:29
- Even common people oppress the poor, rob the needy, and deprive foreigners of justice.
- "I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn't have to destroy the land, but I found no one.
- So now I will pour out my fury on them, consuming them in the fire of my anger. I will heap on them the full penalty for all their sins, says the Sovereign LORD."
Psalms 62:10
- Don't try to get rich by extortion or robbery. And if your wealth increases, don't make it the center of your life.
Jeremiah 5:1
- "Run up and down every street in Jerusalem," says the LORD. "Look high and low; search throughout the city! If you can find even one person who is just and honest, I will not destroy the city.
Psalms 7:13
- He will prepare his deadly weapons and ignite his flaming arrows.
- The wicked conceive evil; they are pregnant with trouble and give birth to lies.
Psalms 62:4
- They plan to topple me from my high position. They delight in telling lies about me. They are friendly to my face, but they curse me in their hearts.
Job 15:31
- Let them no longer trust in empty riches. They are only fooling themselves, for emptiness will be their only reward.
Isaiah 59:13
- We know that we have rebelled against the LORD. We have turned our backs on God. We know how unfair and oppressive we have been, carefully planning our deceitful lies.
- Our courts oppose people who are righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth falls dead in the streets, and fairness has been outlawed.