1:23 Your officials are rebels, 1
they associate with 2 thieves.
All of them love bribery,
and look for 3 payoffs. 4
They do not take up the cause of the orphan, 5
or defend the rights of the widow. 6
17:23 A wicked person receives a bribe secretly 11
to pervert 12 the ways of justice.
3:11 Her 13 leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, 14
her priests proclaim rulings for profit,
and her prophets read omens for pay.
Yet they claim to trust 15 the Lord and say,
“The Lord is among us. 16
Disaster will not overtake 17 us!”
7:3 They are determined to be experts at doing evil; 18
government officials and judges take bribes, 19
prominent men make demands,
and they all do what is necessary to satisfy them. 20