Isaiah 10:1

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“Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,”

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BSBPD

“Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Woe <FI>to<Fi> those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 10:1 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 23:3And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.
  2. Exodus 23:6You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.
  3. 1 Kings 21:13And the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.
  4. Esther 3:10So the king removed the signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
  5. Psalms 58:2No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.
  6. Psalms 94:20Can a corrupt throne be Your ally— one devising mischief by decree?
  7. Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
  8. Isaiah 5:8Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
  9. Isaiah 5:11Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
  10. Isaiah 5:18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,
  11. Isaiah 5:20Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.
  12. Jeremiah 22:13“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
  13. Daniel 6:8Therefore, O king, establish the decree and sign the document so that it cannot be changed—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.”
  14. Amos 2:7They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
  15. Micah 3:1Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
  16. Micah 3:9Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,
  17. Micah 6:16You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
  18. Habakkuk 2:6Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’
  19. Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
  20. Habakkuk 2:12Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!
  21. Habakkuk 2:15Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!
  22. Habakkuk 2:19Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”
  23. Matthew 11:21“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
  24. Matthew 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

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