Isaiah 5:23
For you justify an impious man in exchange for bribes, and you carry away the justice of a just man from him.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
In Context
22Woe to you who are powerful at drinking wine, who are strong men in contriving inebriation!
Cross References
Exodus 23:6You shall not deviate in judgment of the poor.
1 Kings 21:13And bringing forward two men, sons of the devil, they caused them to sit opposite him. And they, acting indeed like diabolical men, spoke testimony against him before the multitude: “Naboth has blasphemed God and king.” For this reason, they led him away, beyond the city, and they put him to death by stoning.
Proverbs 17:23The impious receives gifts from the bosom, so that he may pervert the paths of judgment.
Proverbs 31:4Not to kings, O Lamuel, not to kings give wine. For there are no secrets where drunkenness reigns.
Isaiah 1:23Your leaders are unfaithful, the associates of thieves. They all love gifts; they pursue rewards. They do not judge for orphans, and the widow’s case is not brought before them.
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 →