Yea, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous act, which they are not able to perform.
[A Psalm of Asaph.] God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods.
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law?
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write misfortune which they have prescribed;
The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do smooth the path of the just.
In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD.
Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are raised up; yea, they that test God are even delivered.