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Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

KJV

Principes tui infideles, socii furum. Omnes diligunt munera, sequuntur retributiones. Pupillo non judicant, et causa viduæ non ingreditur ad illos.

Vulgate

οἱ ἄρχοντές σου ἀπειθοῦσιν κοινωνοὶ κλεπτῶν, ἀγαπῶντες δῶρα, διώκοντες ἀνταπόδομα, ὀρφανοῖς οὐ κρίνοντες καὶ κρίσιν χηρῶν οὐ προσέχοντες.

LXX

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

ASV

שָׂרַ֣יִ/ךְ סוֹרְרִ֗ים וְ/חַבְרֵי֙ גַּנָּבִ֔ים כֻּלּ/וֹ֙ אֹהֵ֣ב שֹׁ֔חַד וְ/רֹדֵ֖ף שַׁלְמֹנִ֑ים יָתוֹם֙ לֹ֣א יִשְׁפֹּ֔טוּ וְ/רִ֥יב אַלְמָנָ֖ה לֹֽא יָב֥וֹא אֲלֵי/הֶֽם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אַלְמָנָ֖ה
'lmnh
noun · 56×
אֹהֵ֣ב
'hb
verb · 209×
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
גַּנָּֽב
gnb
noun · 17×
ו
v
noun · 15×
יָּת֥וֹם
ytvm
noun · 42×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
verb · 144×
נוּ
nv
verb · 199×
סוֹרֵ֣ר
svrr
verb · 17×
רִ֥יב
ryb
noun · 61×
שַׁלְמֹנִ֑ים
shlmnym
noun · 1×
שֹׁ֔חַד
shchd
noun · 23×
שָׂרֵ֣י
shry
noun · 420×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

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Cross-references

  • 1Cor 6:10 — Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
  • 1Tim 6:10 — For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  • 2Chr 19:7 — Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
  • Acts 4:5 — And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
  • Amos 5:12 — For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
  • Deut 16:19 — Thou 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.
  • Deut 24:17 — Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
  • Eccl 7:7 — Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
  • Exod 22:22 — Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
  • Exod 23:8 — And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
  • Ezek 12:2 — Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
  • Ezek 22:6 — Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
  • Ezek 22:27 — Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
  • Hos 9:15 — All 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.
  • Isa 1:17 — Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
  • Isa 3:14 — The 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 5:23 — Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
  • Isa 10:1 — Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
  • Isa 10:2 — To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
  • Isa 65:2 — I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
  • Jas 1:27 — Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
  • Jer 5:28 — They 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.
  • Jer 5:28 — They 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.
  • Jer 22:3 — Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, ne
  • Jer 32:32 — Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and th
  • Luke 18:2 — Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:
  • Luke 19:46 — Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.
  • Mal 3:5 — And 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
  • Mic 3:9 — Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
  • Mic 3:11 — The 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 ca
  • Mic 6:12 — For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
  • Mic 7:3 — That 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.
  • Prov 17:8 — A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
  • Prov 17:23 — A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
  • Prov 29:24 — Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
  • Prov 31:9 — Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
  • Ps 68:5 — A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
  • Ps 82:3 — Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
  • Zech 7:10 — And 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.
  • Zech 7:10 — And 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.