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Woe to the Corrupt Judges
Isaiah 5:23
Showing verse 23 with surrounding context.
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Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who change darkness into light and light into darkness, who change bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter!
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Woe to those seeing themselves as wise, esteeming themselves as clever.
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Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, men whose power goes to mixing strong drinks,
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who acquit the guilty for bribes but deny justice to the righteous!
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Therefore, as fire licks up the stubble, and the chaff is consumed in the flame; so their root will rot, and their flowers scatter like dust; because they have rejected the Torah of ADONAI-Tzva'ot, they have despised the word of the Holy One of Isra'el.
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This is why ADONAI's anger blazed up against his people, why he stretched out his hand against them and struck them [so hard that] the hills shook, and corpses lay like trash in the streets. Even after all this, his anger remains, his upraised hand still threatens.
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He will give a signal to faraway nations, he will whistle for them to come from the ends of the earth; and here they come, so fast!
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