Isaiah 59:4

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“No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.”

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BSBPD

“No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 59:4 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 15:31Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.
  2. Job 15:35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
  3. Psalms 7:13He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
  4. Psalms 7:15He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
  5. Psalms 12:3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.
  6. Psalms 62:4They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah
  7. Psalms 62:10Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
  8. Proverbs 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
  9. Isaiah 30:12Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,
  10. Isaiah 33:11You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.
  11. Isaiah 59:3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
  12. Isaiah 59:13rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
  13. Isaiah 59:16He saw that there was no man; He was amazed that there was no one to intercede. So His own arm brought salvation, and His own righteousness sustained Him.
  14. Jeremiah 5:1“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.
  15. Jeremiah 5:4Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
  16. Jeremiah 7:4Do not trust in deceptive words, chanting: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
  17. Jeremiah 7:8But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
  18. Ezekiel 22:29The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
  19. Micah 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
  20. Micah 7:2The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
  21. Acts 24:9The Jews concurred, asserting that these charges were true.
  22. James 1:15Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

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