For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his hea
Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redee
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fathe
For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He look
If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adu
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is
For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious pres
Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they t
Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit
For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutte
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses yo
Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no tr
Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom t
The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the tr
Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all th
See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood.
The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt