Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
Parallel translations
- KJV Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
- BSB Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
- NKJV Therefore the law is powerless, And justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; Therefore perverse judgment proceeds.
- NASB Therefore the Law is ignored, And justice is never upheld. For the wicked surround the righteous; Therefore justice comes out confused.
- NLT The law has become paralyzed, and there is no justice in the courts. The wicked far outnumber the righteous, so that justice has become perverted.
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- Ps 119:126It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.
- Job 21:7“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
- Ps 94:20–21Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
- Isa 1:21–23How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
- Jer 12:1You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
- Ezek 9:9Then 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 perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’
- Isa 59:13–15transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
- Isa 5:20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
- Exod 23:2“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.
- Ezek 22:25–30There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made her widows many within it.
- Ps 58:1–2For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David. Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
- Deut 16:19You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
- Exod 23:6“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
- Hos 10:4They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
- Amos 5:12For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins — you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.
- Matt 27:25–26All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”
- Mic 7:2–4The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
- Matt 26:59–66Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
- Mic 2:1–2Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
- Ps 59:4I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!
- Jer 26:21–23When Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt:
- Acts 7:52Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
- Jer 37:14–16Then Jeremiah said, “That is false! I am not falling away to the Chaldeans.” But he didn’t listen to him; so Irijah siezed Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
- Jas 2:6–7But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
- Acts 23:12–14When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
- Matt 23:34–36Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
- Ps 94:3Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
- Mark 7:9He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.
- Jer 5:27–29As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
- Matt 27:1–2Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
- Acts 7:59They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
- Mic 3:1–3I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?
- Rom 3:31Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
- Ps 59:2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.
- Ps 82:1–5A Psalm by Asaph. God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.
- Ps 11:3If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?
- Ps 22:16For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
- Jer 12:6For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.
- Amos 5:7You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:
- Jer 26:8When Jeremiah had finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die!
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