Cross references

Isaiah 59:14

So justice is turned away,

and righteousness stands at a distance.

For truth has stumbled in the public square,

and honesty cannot enter.

Isaiah 59:14 BSB

Isaiah 59:14 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 12 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 3:16 (6 votes) and Habakkuk 1:4 (6 votes). 34 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Exodus 18 to Matthew 22.

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Which verses does Isaiah 59:14 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.

  2. Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

  3. See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!

  4. who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

  5. Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

  6. Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich. They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.

  7. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?

  8. Amos 5:115 votes

    Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

  9. Now 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, who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity. …

  10. 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.

  11. Amos 5:74 votes

Which verses point to Isaiah 59:14?

The 10 strongest of 34.