Isaiah 29:21
19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.
- KJV
- That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
- WEB
- who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
- ASV
- that make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.
- DARBY
- that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and pervert [the judgment of] the righteous by futility.
- BLB
- those making guilty a man by a word and laying a snare for the one arguing in the gate and stretching aside in confusion the just one.
- ÅB
- de som gjør et menneske til synder for et ords skyld og legger snarer for den som hevder retten på tinget, og som ved løgn bøyer retten for den rettferdige.
- OTB
- de som gjør en mann til en forbryter ved et ord, og legger en snare for ham som irettesetter i porten, og med falskt vitnesbyrd vender de rettferdige bort.
- B1930
- de som gjør et menneske til synder for et ords skyld og legger snarer for den som hevder retten på tinget, og som ved løgn bøier retten for den rettferdige.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Amos 5:10–12
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
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Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
Read in contextActs 3:14
But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
Read in contextJeremiah 26:2–8
Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD’s house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD’s house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:
Read in contextLuke 11:53–54
And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
Read in contextMatthew 26:15
And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
Read in contextJeremiah 18:18
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Read in contextJudges 12:6
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
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