Isaiah 10:1 Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees,

English Standard Version
Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression,

New American Standard Bible
Woe to those who enact evil statutes And to those who constantly record unjust decisions,

King James Bible
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Woe to those enacting crooked statutes and writing oppressive laws

International Standard Version
"How terrible it will be for the one who enacts unjust decrees, for those who write oppressive laws that they have prescribed

American Standard Version
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;

Douay-Rheims Bible
WOE to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:

Darby Bible Translation
Woe unto them that decree iniquitous decrees, and to the writers that prescribe oppression,

Young's Literal Translation
Woe to those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.

Cross References

Psalm 58:2
Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

Psalm 94:20
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law?

Isaiah 3:14
The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 5:23
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Isaiah 29:21
That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.

Isaiah 59:4
None calls for justice, nor any pleads for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Isaiah 59:13
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Daniel 6:8
Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which alters not.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

10:1-4 These verses are to be joined with the foregoing chapter. Woe to the superior powers that devise and decree unrighteous decrees! And woe to the inferior officers that draw them up, and enter them on record! But what will sinners do? Whither will they flee?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 10

Isa 10:1-4. Fourth strophe.

1. them that decree—namely, unrighteous judges.

write grievousness, &c.—not the scribes, but the magistrates who caused unjust decisions (literally, "injustice" or "grievousness") to be recorded by them (Isa 65:6) [Maurer], (Isa 1:10, 23).