Isaiah 26:10
Good News Translation
Even though you are kind to the wicked, they never learn to do what is right. Even here in a land of righteous people they still do wrong; they refuse to recognize your greatness.

New Revised Standard Version
If favor is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness they deal perversely and do not see the majesty of the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
Even when the wicked are treated with mercy in this land of justice, they do wrong and are blind to your glory, our LORD.

New American Bible
The wicked, when spared, do not learn justice; in an upright land they act perversely, and do not see the majesty of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will not learn justice: in the land of the saints he hath done wicked things, and he shall not see the glory of the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will not learn justice: in the land of the saints he hath done wicked things, and he shall not see the glory of the Lord.

favour

Isaiah 63:9,10 In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy he redeemed them, and he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old. . . .

Exodus 8:15,31,32 And Pharao seeing that rest was given, hardened his own heart, and did not hear them, as the Lord had commanded. . . .

Exodus 9:34 And Pharao seeing that the rain, and the hail, and the thunders were ceased, increased his sin:

Deuteronomy 32:15 The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.

1 Samuel 15:17 And Samuel said: When thou wast a little one in thy own eyes, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the Lord anointed thee to be king over Israel.

Psalm 106:43 Many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities.

Proverbs 1:32 But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.

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

Hosea 13:6 According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full: and they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me.

Romans 2:4,5 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance? . . .

Revelation 2:21 And I gave her a time that she might do penance: and she will not repent of her fornication.

in the

Isaiah 2:10 Enter thou into the rock, and hide thee in the pit from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty.

Isaiah 24:5 And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 27:13 And it shall come to pass, that in that day a noise shall be made with a great trumpet, and they that were lost, shall come from the land of the Assyrians, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall adore the Lord in the holy mount in Jerusalem.

Psalm 78:54-58 And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the mountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the Gentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line of distribution. . . .

Psalm 143:10 Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God. Thy good spirit shall lead me into the right land:

Jeremiah 2:7 And I brought you into the land of Carmel, to eat the fruit thereof, and the best things thereof: and when ye entered in, you defiled my land and made my inheritance an abomination.

Jeremiah 31:23 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As yet shall they say this word in the land of Juda, and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring back their captivity: The Lord bless thee, the beauty of justice, the holy mountain.

Ezekiel 22:2 And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou not judge the city of blood?

Hosea 9:3 They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians.

Micah 2:10 You have cast out the women of my people from their houses, in which they took delight: you have taken my praise forever from their children.

Micah 3:10-12 Hear this, ye princes of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: you that abhor judgment and pervert all that is right. . . .

Matthew 4:5 Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him upon the pinnacle of the temple,

and will not

Isaiah 5:12 The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

Psalm 28:4,5 Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. According to the works of their hands give thou to them: render to them their reward. . . .

Hosea 11:7 And my people shall long for my return: but a yoke shall be put upon them together, which shall not be taken off.

John 5:37,38 And the Father himself who hath sent me hath given testimony of me: neither have you heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. . . .

Context
A Song of Trust in God's Provision
9My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice. 10Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will not learn justice: in the land of the saints he hath done wicked things, and he shall not see the glory of the Lord.11Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them not see: let the envious people see, and be confounded: and let fire devour thy enemies.…
Cross References
John 5:37
And the Father himself who hath sent me hath given testimony of me: neither have you heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

John 5:38
And you have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him you believe not.

Exodus 9:30
But I know that neither thou, nor thy servants do yet fear the Lord God.

Psalm 69:27
Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice.

Isaiah 22:12
And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Isaiah 22:13
And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying rams, eating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

Isaiah 32:6
For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and to make empty the soul of the hungry, and take away drink from the thirsty.

Isaiah 32:7
The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath framed devices to destroy the meek, with lying words, when the poor man speaketh judgment.

Hosea 11:7
And my people shall long for my return: but a yoke shall be put upon them together, which shall not be taken off.

Isaiah 26:9
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