Isaiah 59:15 Cross References - ACV

¹⁵ Yea, truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. And LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

¹⁰ And the thing which he did was evil in the sight of LORD, and he killed him also.

²⁷ And when the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased LORD.

¹¹ Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to thee? And he said to them, Ye know the man and what his talk was.

⁷ However LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons always.

⁹ For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their inward part is very wickedness. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongue they deceive.

¹ Help, LORD, for the holy man ceases, for the faithful fail from among the sons of men. ² They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.

¹ Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness

¹ Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if ye can find a man, if there is any who does justly, who seeks truth, and I will pardon her. ² And though they say, As LORD lives, surely they swear falsely.

²⁸ And thou shall say to them, This is the nation that has not hearkened to the voice of LORD their God, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

²⁶ LORD has made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of LORD, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that thou should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

¹ Hear the word of LORD, ye sons of Israel, for LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. ² There is nothing but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery. They break out, and blood touches blood.

⁷ The days of visitation have come. The days of recompense have come. Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great.

² The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.

¹³ Thou who are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and who cannot look on perverseness, why do thou look upon those who deal treacherously, and hold thy peace when the wicked man swallows up the man who is more righteous than he, ¹⁴ and makes men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

²¹ And when those with him heard it, they went out to grasp him, for they said, He is beside himself.

⁵² The Jews therefore said to him, Now we know that thou have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets, and thou say, If any man keeps my word, he will, no, not taste of death, into the age.

²⁰ And many of them said, He has a demon, and is mad. Why do ye listen to him?

¹ But Saul, still breathing threat and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, after going to the high priest,

²³ And after considerable days were fulfilled, the Jews plotted to destroy him,

²⁴ And while he made a defense by these things, Festus said in a loud voice, Paul, thou are mad. Much scholarship is driving thee into madness.

³⁶ Just as it is written, For thy sake we are killed the whole day long. We are considered as sheep of slaughter.

¹³ For whether we are beside ourselves to God, or we are of normal mind, it is for you.

³⁶ And others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, and moreover of bonds and imprisonment. ³⁷ They were stoned, they were sawed apart, they were tempted, they died in murder by sword. They wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, restricted, tormented ³⁸ (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

¹¹ Because this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love each other. ¹² Not as Cain. He was of the wicked, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were wrong, and his brother's right.