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Isaiah 5:23

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23aWho justify the wicked for a bribe,

And btake away the 1rights of the ones who are in the right!

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Footnotes

  1. 1Lit righteousness

Cross references

  1. aEx 23:8; Is 1:23; 10:1, 2; Mic 3:11; 7:3
  2. bPs 94:21; James 5:6

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

who acquit the guilty for a bribe,

and deprive the innocent of his right!

NIVNew International Version (2011)

who acquit the guilty for a bribe,

but deny justice to the innocent.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

who acquit the guilty for a bribe

and deprive the innocent of justice.

NLTNew Living Translation

They take bribes to let the wicked go free,

and they punish the innocent.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribe

and remove the justice of the innocent from him.

KJV 1900King James Version

Which justify the wicked for reward,

And take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!