Proverbs 14:34
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Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable.

righteousness

Deuteronomy 4:6-8 And you shall observe, and fulfil them in practice. For this is your wisdom, and understanding in the sight of nations, that hearing all these precepts, they may say: Behold a wise and understanding people, a great nation. . . .

Deuteronomy 28:1-14 Now if thou wilt hear the voice of all his commandments, which I command thee this day, the Lord thy God will make thee higher than all the nations that are on the earth. . . .

Judges 2:6-14 And Josue sent away the people, and the children of Israel went every one to his own possession to hold it: . . .

Jeremiah 2:2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: I have remembered thee, pitying thy youth, and the love of thy espousals, when thou followedst me in the desert, in a land that is not sown.

Hosea 13:1 When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal, and died.

but

Deuteronomy 28:15 But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.

Deuteronomy 29:18-28 Lest perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman, a family or a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations: and there should be among you a root bringing forth gall and bitterness. . . .

Psalm 107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Ezekiel 16:22,23 And after all thy abominations, and fornications, thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked, and full of confusion, trodden under foot in thy own blood. . . .

Context
The Wise Woman
33In the heart of the prudent resteth wisdom, and it shall instruct all the ignorant. 34Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable.35A wise servant is acceptable to the king: he that is good for nothing shall feel his anger.…
Cross References
Proverbs 14:33
In the heart of the prudent resteth wisdom, and it shall instruct all the ignorant.

Proverbs 14:35
A wise servant is acceptable to the king: he that is good for nothing shall feel his anger.

Lexicon
Righteousness
צְדָקָ֥ה (ṣə·ḏā·qāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively

exalts
תְרֽוֹמֵֽם־ (ṯə·rō·w·mêm-)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7311: To be high actively, to rise, raise

a nation,
גּ֑וֹי (gō·w)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

but sin
חַטָּֽאת׃ (ḥaṭ·ṭāṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2403: An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender

is a disgrace
וְחֶ֖סֶד (wə·ḥe·seḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2617: Kindness, piety, reproof, beauty

to any people.
לְאֻמִּ֣ים (lə·’um·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3816: A community


Additional Translations
Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.Righteousness exalts a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

Righteousness exalteth a nation; But sin is a reproach to any people.

Righteousness exalts a nation: but sins diminish tribes.

Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to peoples.

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

Righteousness exalteth a nation, And the goodliness of peoples is a sin-offering.
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