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Isaiah 1:21

The Degenerate City

21 aHow the faithful city has become a 2harlot!

It was full of justice;

Righteousness lodged in it,

But now bmurderers.

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Isaiah 1:21 — The New International Version (NIV)

21 See how the faithful city

has become a prostitute!

She once was full of justice;

righteousness used to dwell in her—

but now murderers!

Isaiah 1:21 — English Standard Version (ESV)

21 How the faithful city

has become a whore,

she who was full of justice!

Righteousness lodged in her,

but now murderers.

Isaiah 1:21 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

21 How is the faithful city become an harlot!

It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it;

But now murderers.

Isaiah 1:21 — New Living Translation (NLT)

21 See how Jerusalem, once so faithful,

has become a prostitute.

Once the home of justice and righteousness,

she is now filled with murderers.

Isaiah 1:21 — New Century Version (NCV)

21 The city of Jerusalem once followed the Lord,

but she is no longer loyal to him.

She used to be filled with fairness;

people there lived the way God wanted.

But now, murderers live there.

Isaiah 1:21 — American Standard Version (ASV)

21 How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

Isaiah 1:21 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

21 How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers.

Isaiah 1:21 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

21 How the faithful town has become a prostitute! 

She was full of justice, 

and righteousness lived in her. 

But now murderers live there! 

Isaiah 1:21 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

21 The faithful city—

what an adulteress she has become!

She was once full of justice.

Righteousness once dwelt in her—

but now, murderers!

Isaiah 1:21 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

21 How the faithful city

has become a whore!

She that was full of justice,

righteousness lodged in her—

but now murderers!

Isaiah 1:21 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

21 How has a faithful city become like a whore?

Full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

Isaiah 1:21 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

21 See how the faithful city of Jerusalem

has become like a prostitute!

Once it was full of people who treated others fairly.

Those who did what was right used to live in it.

But now murderers live there!

Isaiah 1:21 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

21 How the faithful city has become a harlot,

She who was full of justice!

Righteousness once lodged in her,

But now murderers.


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