Isaiah 1:23
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Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them.

princes

Isaiah 3:14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house.

2 Chronicles 24:17-21 And after the death of Joiada, the princes of Juda went in, and worshipped the king: and he was soothed by their services and hearkened to them. . . .

2 Chronicles 36:14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people wickedly transgressed according to all the abominations of the Gentiles: and they defiled the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 5:5 I will go therefore to the great men, and will speak to them: for they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God: and behold these have altogether broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.

Ezekiel 22:6-12 Behold the princes of Israel, every one hath employed his arm in thee to shed blood. . . .

Daniel 9:5,6 We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly, and have revolted: and we have gone aside from thy commandments, and thy judgments. . . .

Hosea 7:3-5 They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies. . . .

Hosea 9:15 All their wickedness is in Galgal, for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their devices I will cast them forth out of my house: I will love them no more, all their princes are revolters.

Micah 3:1-3,11 For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them. . . .

Acts 4:5-11 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their princes and ancients and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem. . . .

companions

Proverbs 29:24 He that is partaker with a thief, hateth his own soul: he heareth one putting him to his oath, and discovereth not.

Matthew 21:13 And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.

Mark 11:27 And they come again to Jerusalem. And when he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests and the scribes and the ancients.

Luke 19:46 Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves.

every

Isaiah 33:15 He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil.

Exodus 23:8 Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.

Deuteronomy 16:19 And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just.

Proverbs 17:23 The wicked man taketh gifts out of the bosom, that he may pervert the paths of judgment.

Jeremiah 22:17 But thy eyes and thy heart are set upon covetousness, and upon shedding innocent blood, and upon oppression, and running after evil works.

Ezekiel 22:12 They have taken gifts in thee to shed blood: thou hast taken usury and increase, and hast covetously oppressed thy neighbours: and thou hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

Hosea 4:18 Their banquet is separated, they have gone astray by fornication: they that should have protected them have loved to bring shame upon them.

Micah 7:3 The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.

they judge

Isaiah 10:1,2 Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice: . . .

Jeremiah 5:28,29 They are grown gross and fat: and have most wickedly transgressed my words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have not managed the cause of the fatherless, and they have not judged the judgment of the poor. . . .

Zechariah 7:10 And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger, and the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against his brother.

Malachi 3:5 And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Luke 18:2-5 Saying: There was a judge in a certain city, who feared not God nor regarded man. . . .

Context
The Corruption of Zion
22Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water. 23Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them.24Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be revenged of my enemies.…
Cross References
Luke 24:27
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things that were concerning him.

James 1:27
Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

Exodus 23:8
Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.

Isaiah 1:22
Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water.

Isaiah 5:23
That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.

Isaiah 10:2
To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless.

Isaiah 30:1
Woe to you, apostate children, saith the Lord, that you would take counsel, and not of me: and would begin a web, and not by my spirit, that you might add sin upon sin:

Isaiah 65:2
I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving people, who walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts.

Jeremiah 4:17
They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:28
They are grown gross and fat: and have most wickedly transgressed my words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have not managed the cause of the fatherless, and they have not judged the judgment of the poor.

Jeremiah 32:32
Because of all the evil of the children of Israel, and of the children of Juda, which they have done, provoking me to wrath, they and their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 12:2
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a provoking house: who have eyes to see, and see not: and ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a provoking house.

Ezekiel 22:6
Behold the princes of Israel, every one hath employed his arm in thee to shed blood.

Ezekiel 22:7
They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.

Hosea 5:10
The princes of Juda are become as they that take up the bound: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

Hosea 9:15
All their wickedness is in Galgal, for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their devices I will cast them forth out of my house: I will love them no more, all their princes are revolters.

Amos 5:12
Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sins: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.

Micah 3:9
But yet I am filled with the strength of the spirit of the Lord, with judgment and power: to declare unto Jacob his wickedness and to Israel his sin.

Micah 3:11
You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Micah 6:12
By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.

Lexicon
Your rulers
שָׂרַ֣יִךְ (śā·ra·yiḵ)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8269: Chieftain, chief, ruler, official, captain, prince

are rebels,
סוֹרְרִ֗ים (sō·wr·rîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5637: To turn away, be refractory

friends
וְחַבְרֵי֙ (wə·ḥaḇ·rê)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 2270: United, associate, companion

of thieves.
גַּנָּבִ֔ים (gan·nā·ḇîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1590: A stealer

They all
כֻּלּוֹ֙ (kul·lōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

love
אֹהֵ֣ב (’ō·hêḇ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 157: To have affection f

bribes
שֹׁ֔חַד (šō·ḥaḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7810: A present, bribe

and chasing after
וְרֹדֵ֖ף (wə·rō·ḏêp̄)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7291: To pursue, chase, persecute

rewards.
שַׁלְמֹנִ֑ים (šal·mō·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8021: A reward, bribe

They do not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

defend
יִשְׁפֹּ֔טוּ (yiš·pō·ṭū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8199: To judge, pronounce sentence, to vindicate, punish, to govern, to litigate

the fatherless,
יָתוֹם֙ (yā·ṯō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3490: A bereaved person

and the plea
וְרִ֥יב (wə·rîḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7379: Strife, dispute

of the widow
אַלְמָנָ֖ה (’al·mā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 490: A widow, a desolate place

never
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

comes
יָב֥וֹא (yā·ḇō·w)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go

before them.
אֲלֵיהֶֽם׃ (’ă·lê·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to


Additional Translations
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Thy princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.

thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not unto them.

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come to them.

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.
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