Isaiah 10:1 “Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,”

Isaiah 10:1

Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

World English Bible

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees

American Standard Version

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;

Geneva Bible 1599

Woe vnto them that decree wicked decrees, and write grieuous things,

Darby Translation

Woe unto them that decree iniquitous decrees, and to the writers that prescribe oppression,

Young's Literal Translation

Woe [to] those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.

Bible in Basic English

Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:

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Cross references

“A. M. 3291. B.C. 713. Woe”

Luke 11:52 Matthew 23:23 Habakkuk 2:6 Luke 11:42–44 Isaiah 5:8 Isaiah 5:18

Luke 11:52 · BSB

Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”

Matthew 23:23 · BSB

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latte…

Habakkuk 2:6 · BSB

Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’

Luke 11:42–44 · BSB

Woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.

Isaiah 5:8 · BSB

Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.

Isaiah 5:18 · BSB

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,

“them”

Micah 3:1–4 John 9:22 John 19:6 Micah 6:16 Esther 3:10–13 Psalm 58:2

Micah 3:1–4 · BSB

Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?

John 9:22 · BSB

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

John 19:6 · BSB

As soon as the chief priests and officers saw Him, they shouted, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” “You take Him and crucify Him,” Pilate replied, “for I find no basis for a charge against Him.”

Micah 6:16 · BSB

You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of th…

Esther 3:10–13 · BSB

So the king removed the signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.

Psalm 58:2 · BSB

No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

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