A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and your produce, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually.

Thus you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see.

And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; but there Jehovah shall give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and fainting soul.

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.

Look at me. Witness against me before Jehovah and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed, or from whose hand have I received any bribe with which to blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.

A wicked man accepts a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.

Your rulers are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe, and pursues rewards. They do not judge for the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

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;