Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, Which frameth mischief by statute?
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;
and now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct the path of the just.
And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
God standeth in the congregation of God; He judgeth among the gods.