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Woeg unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and ηthat write grievousness which they have prescribed;

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Psa. 94:20• ²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which frameth mischief into a law? (Psa. 94:20)

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1-4: The woe of tyrants.

5-19: Assyria, the rod of hypocrites, for his pride shall be broken.

20-23: A remnant of Israel shall be saved.

24-34: Judah is comforted with promise of deliverance from Assyria.

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Isa. 3:11• ¹¹Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him. (Isa. 3:11)

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Isa. 5:8,11,18,20‑22• ⁸Woe unto them that add house to house, that join field to field, until there is no more room, and that ye dwell yourselves alone in the midst of the land!
¹¹Woe unto them that, rising early in the morning, run after strong drink; that linger till twilight, till wine inflameth them!
¹⁸Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with cart-ropes!
²⁰Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
²¹Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and intelligent in their own esteem!
²²Woe unto them that are mighty for drinking wine, and men valiant to mix strong drink; (Isa. 5:8,11,18,20‑22)

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Jer. 22:13• ¹³Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his upper chambers by injustice; that taketh his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not his earning; (Jer. 22:13)

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Hab. 2:6,9,12,15,19• ⁶Shall not all these take up a proverb about him, and a taunting riddle against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long?--and to him that loadeth himself with pledges!
⁹Woe to him that getteth iniquitous gain to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the grasp of evil!
¹²Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by unrighteousness!
¹⁵Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink,--that pourest out thy flask, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
¹⁹Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake! to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall it teach? Behold it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. (Hab. 2:6,9,12,15,19)

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Matt. 11:21• ²¹Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee Bethsaida! for if the works of power which have taken place in you, had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they had long ago repented in sackcloth and ashes. (Matt. 11:21)

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Matt. 23:13‑16,23,27,29• ¹³But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for *ye* do not enter, nor do ye suffer those that are entering to go in.
¹⁴(Verse 14 is omitted in this translation.)
¹⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye compass the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and when he is become such, ye make him twofold more the son of hell than yourselves.
¹⁶Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
²³Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and ye have left aside the weightier matters of the law, judgment and mercy and faith: these ye ought to have done and not have left those aside.
²⁷Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
²⁹Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the just, (Matt. 23:13‑16,23,27,29)

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Matt. 26:24• ²⁴The Son of man goes indeed, according as it is written concerning him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up; it were good for that man if he had not been born. (Matt. 26:24)

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Luke 11:42‑44,46‑47,52• ⁴²But woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye pay tithes of mint and rue and every herb, and pass by the judgment and the love of God: these ye ought to have done, and not have left those aside.
⁴³Woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye love the first seat in the synagogues and salutations in the market-places.
⁴⁴Woe unto you, for ye are as the sepulchres which appear not, and the men walking over them do not know it.
⁴⁶And he said, To you also woe, doctors of the law, for ye lay upon men burdens heavy to bear, and yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
⁴⁷Woe unto you, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.
⁵²Woe unto you, the doctors of the law, for ye have taken away the key of knowledge; yourselves have not entered in, and those who were entering in ye have hindered. (Luke 11:42‑44,46‑47,52)

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Jude 11• ¹¹Woe to them! because they have gone in the way of Cain, and given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. (Jude 11)

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1 Kings 21:13• ¹³And there came the two men, sons of Belial, and sat before him; and the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. (1 Kings 21:13)

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Esther 3:10‑13• ¹⁰And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
¹¹And the king said to Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as seems good to thee.
¹²Then were the king's scribes called, in the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month, and there was written according to all that Haman commanded unto the king's satraps, and to the governors over every province, and to the princes of every people; to every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people according to their language: in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.
¹³And the letters were sent by couriers into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, upon the thirteenth of the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey. (Esther 3:10‑13)

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Psa. 58:2• ²Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. (Psa. 58:2)

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Psa. 94:20‑21• ²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which frameth mischief into a law?
²¹They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood. (Psa. 94:20‑21)

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Dan. 6:8‑9• ⁸Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked.
⁹Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree. (Dan. 6:8‑9)

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Mic. 3:1‑4,9‑11• ¹And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?
²Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;
³and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.
⁴Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer them; and he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.
⁹Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity,
¹⁰that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with unrighteousness.
¹¹The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet do they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us. (Mic. 3:1‑4,9‑11)

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Mic. 6:16• ¹⁶For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and ye walk in their counsels: that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing; and ye shall bear the reproach of my people. (Mic. 6:16)

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John 9:22• ²²His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one confessed him to be the Christ, he should be excommunicated from the synagogue. (John 9:22)

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John 19:6• ⁶When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him they cried out saying, Crucify, crucify him. Pilate says to them, Take him ye and crucify him, for I find no fault in him. (John 19:6)

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• {v.1-4} They would still practice deceit and treachery and oppression, and bring upon themselves what is described as “the day of visitation”. Having forsaken their God, He would be no refuge for them in that hour of distress, and His hand would still be against them. (“Isaiah 10” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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