But You have seen it, for You pay attention to trouble and provocation; to repay it with Your hand. The poor commits himself to You; You are the Helper of the fatherless.

For lo, the wicked bend their bow; they make ready their arrow on the string, so that they may secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

He devises wickedness on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not despise evil.

Your tongue devises destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Swallow up, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Lust is in its midst; oppression and guile do not depart from its streets.

for their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed blood.

For they do not sleep unless they have done evil, and their sleep is taken away unless they cause someone to fall.

Woe to those who devise wickedness and do evil on their beds! In the morning light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Therefore thus says Jehovah: Behold, I am devising evil against this family, from which you shall not remove your necks; nor shall you walk haughtily, for this is an evil time.

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

and plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him.

And when it was day, some of the Jews made a pact and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.

And you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and perverts the words of the righteous.

You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

He who walks righteously and speaks with equity; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands free from holding bribes, who stops his ear from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Behold, therefore, I have clapped My hands at the unjust gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst.

For I know your many transgressions, and your many sins: afflicting the just, taking bribes, and thrusting away the poor from justice in the gate.

Both hands are on evil, to do it well. Both the ruler and the judge ask for a bribe. And the great one speaks the lust of his soul; and they weave it together.