Isaiah 5:20
Woe to you who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light, and light for darkness; who exchange bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
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In The King James Version
In Context
21Woe to you who are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own sight!
Cross References
Exodus 23:7You shall flee from lies. The innocent and the just you shall not kill. For I shun the impious.
Job 17:12They have turned night into day, and I hope for light again after the darkness.
Proverbs 17:15Those who justify the impious, and those who condemn the just, both are abominable with God.
Isaiah 32:5He who is foolish will no longer be called leader, nor will the deceitful be called greater.
Amos 5:7You turn judgment into wormwood, and you abandon justice on earth.
Malachi 2:17You have wearied the Lord with your speeches, and you have said, “In what way, have we wearied him?” In that you say, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and such as these please him,” or certainly, “Where is the God of judgment?”
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 5:19-30
Denunciations against Sin. ( b. c. 758.) 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in… Read the whole commentary →