For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil.

These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; for by ungodliness they destroy their own life.

The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the just, but untimely grief shall cover the mouth of the ungodly.

Do no violence to the poor, for he is needy, neither dishonor the helpless man in the gates.

For the Lord will plead his cause, and you shall deliver your soul in safety.

His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.

The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. Pause.

Your princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.

Therefore thus says the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Woe to the mighty [men] of Israel; for My wrath shall not cease against My adversaries, and I will execute judgment on My enemies.

and you murder, and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and have gone after strange gods whom you know not,

Is My house, which is called by My name, a den of robbers in your eyes? And behold, I have seen [it], says the Lord.

And if I shall smite My hand at [your iniquities] which you have accomplished, which you have wrought, and at your blood that has been shed in the midst of you,

shall your heart endure? Shall your hands be strong in the days which I bring upon you? I the Lord have spoken, and will do [it].

Hear now these words, you chiefs of the house of Jacob, and the remnant of the house of Israel, who hate judgment, and pervert all righteousness;

Their heads have judged for gifts, and their priests have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and yet they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? No evil shall come upon us.

And he said to me, This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole earth; for every thief shall be punished with death on this side, and every false swearer shall be punished on that side.

And I will bring it forth, says the Lord Almighty, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by My name, and it shall rest in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, and the timber of it, and the stones of it.

The way of righteousness and mercy will find life and glory.

But if his father should grievously afflict or plunder, he has wrought enmity in the midst of My people, and shall die in his iniquity.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.