Bible verse
Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
Isaiah 10:1 · BSB
The verses around it, from Isaiah 10.
1 Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
2 to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
3 What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
4 Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
KJV
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness [which] they have prescribed;
ASV
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;
ERV
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness:
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