Isaiah 1:23

The rulers are rebellious, love bribes, and ignore the orphan and widow. Corrupt leadership oppresses the vulnerable instead of defending them.

Cross-references · 27

• Mic 7:3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
• Exod 23:8And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
• Zech 7:10And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
• Luke 18:2–5Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:
• Acts 4:5–11And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
• Luke 19:46Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.
• Isa 10:1–2Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
• Mal 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Jer 5:28–29They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
• Isa 3:14The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
• Isa 33:15He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
• Mark 11:17And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
• 2 Chr 36:14Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
• Prov 29:24Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
• Matt 21:13And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
• Deut 16:19Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
• Hos 7:3–5They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
• Mic 3:1–3And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
• Hos 9:15All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
• Hos 4:18Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
• Jer 5:5I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto 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.
• Prov 17:23A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
• Ezek 22:6–12Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
• Jer 22:17But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
• 2 Chr 24:17–21Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
• Dan 9:5–6We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
• Mic 3:11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

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