Isaiah 29:21

Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

In Context

20For ceased hath the terrible one, And consumed hath been the scorner, And cut off have been all watching for iniquity,

22Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Who ransomed Abraham, Concerning the house of Jacob: 'Not now ashamed is Jacob, Nor now doth his face become pale,

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Cross References

Proverbs 28:21To discern faces is not good, And for a piece of bread doth a man transgress.

Isaiah 5:23Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.

Jeremiah 18:18And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

Jeremiah 26:2'Thus said Jehovah, Stand thou in the court of the house of Jehovah, and thou hast spoken unto all [those of] the cities of Judah who are coming in to bow themselves in the house of Jehovah, all the words that I have commanded thee to speak unto them, thou dost not diminish a word.

Amos 5:10They have hated a reprover in the gate, And a plain speaker they abominate.

Micah 2:6Ye do not prophesy — they do prophesy, They do not prophesy to these, It doth not remove shame.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 29:18-24

Promises to Israel; Character of Persecutors; Promises of Jacob. ( b. c. 725.) 17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? 18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. 19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord , and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. 20 For the terrible one is brought to… Read the whole commentary →

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