For the Lord your God, He [is the] God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great and mighty; the awesome God, who is no respector of persons, nor will He by any means accept a bribe;

they shall not pervert judgment, nor favor persons, nor receive a gift; for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

You shall abstain from every unjust thing: you shall not slay the innocent and righteous, and you shall not justify the wicked for gifts.

And you shall not receive gifts; for gifts blind the eyes of the seeing, and corrupt just words.

He has not lent his money on usury, and has not received bribes against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.

If they should exhort you, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, and let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth:

let us seize on his valuable property, and let us fill our houses with spoils:

go not in the way with them, let your foot turn aside from their paths:

for nets are not spread for [the] birds without cause.

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

And she makes proclamation on the top of the walls, and sits by the gates of princes; and at the gates of the city boldly says,

Behold, I will bring forth to you the utterance of my breath, and I will instruct you in my speech.

but you disdained my counsels, and disregarded my reproofs;

yea when dismay suddenly comes upon you, and your overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; and when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, or when ruin shall come upon you.

For they hated wisdom, and did not choose the word of the Lord:

In you they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in you interest and usurious increase; and by oppression you have brought your wickedness to the full, and have forgotten Me, 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,

who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

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.

For the godly has perished from the earth; and there is none upright among men: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict everyone his neighbor.

They prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks a [reward], and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul;

and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?" And they weighed out for him thirty silver [coins].

Then Judas, the [one] betraying Him, seeing that He was condemned, feeling regret, returned the thirty silver [coins] to the chief priests and elders,

saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." And they said, "What is [that] to us? You see to it!"

(Now this man purchased a field by means of the wages of [his] unrighteousness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.