Psalm 94:20 {93:20}
Good News Translation
You have nothing to do with corrupt judges, who make injustice legal,

New Revised Standard Version
Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who contrive mischief by statute?

Contemporary English Version
But you are opposed to dishonest lawmakers

New American Bible
Can unjust judges be your allies, those who create burdens by decree,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment?

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Psalm 52:1 Unto the end, understanding for David, [2] When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul: David went to the house of Achimelech. [3] Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity?

Psalm 82:1 A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

1 Samuel 22:12 And Saul said to Achimelech: Hear, thou son of Achitob. He answered: Here I am, my lord.

Ecclesiastes 3:16 I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice iniquity.

Ecclesiastes 5:8 If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:

Amos 6:3 You that are separated unto the evil day: and that approach to the throne of iniquity;

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2 Chronicles 6:14-16 He said: O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heaven nor in earth: who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts: . . .

Isaiah 1:11-20 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. . . .

Jeremiah 7:4-11 Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord. . . .

John 18:28 Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor's hall. And it was morning: and they went not into the hall, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the pasch.

1 John 1:5,6 And this is the declaration which we have heard from him and declare unto you: That God is light and in him there is no darkness. . . .

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Psalm 58:2 For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.

1 Kings 12:32 And he appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, after the manner of the feast that was celebrated in Juda. And going up to the altar, he did in like manner in Bethel, to sacrifice to the calves, which he had made: and he placed in Bethel priests of the high places, which he had made.

Esther 3:6-12 And he counted it nothing to lay his hands upon Mardochai alone: for he had heard that he was of the nation of the Jews, and he chose rather to destroy all the nation of the Jews that were in the kingdom of Assuerus. . . .

Isaiah 10:1 Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:

Daniel 3:4-7 Then a herald cried with a strong voice: To you it is commanded, O nations, tribes and languages: . . .

Daniel 6:7-9 All the princes of the kingdom, the magistrates, and governors, the senators, and judges, have consulted together, that an imperial decree, and an edict be published: That whosoever shall ask any petition of any god, or man, for thirty days, but of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of the lions. . . .

Micah 6:16 For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.

John 9:22 These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed among themselves that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

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Revelation 13:15-17 And it was given him to give life to the image of the beast: and that the image of the beast should speak: and should cause that whosoever will not adore the image of the beast should be slain. . . .

Context
The LORD Will Not Forget His People
19According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, thy comforts have given joy to my soul. 20Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment?21They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn innocent blood.…
Cross References
Psalm 50:16
But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth?

Psalm 58:2
For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.

Isaiah 10:1
Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:

Jeremiah 22:30
Thus saith the Lord: Write this man barren, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for there shall not be a man of his seed that shall sit upon the throne of David, and have power any more in Juda.

Daniel 6:15
But those men perceiving the king's design, said to him: Know thou, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, that no decree which the king hath made, may be altered.

Amos 6:3
You that are separated unto the evil day: and that approach to the throne of iniquity;

Psalm 94:19
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