Micah 6:12
Her rich people are filled with violence, and her inhabitants tell lies their tongues speak deceitfully!
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. All of them are lovers of bribes and are runners after gifts. They don't bring justice to orphans, and the widow's case never comes up for review in their court."
Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue is a deadly arrow that speaks deceit. With his mouth a person says, "Peace,' to his friend, but inwardly he sets a trap for him.
Hosea 7:13
Woe to them because they have run away from me. Ruin to them because they have sinned against me. Even though I redeemed them, they spread lies against me.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the garden in which he delights. He looked for justice, but saw only bloodshed; he searched for righteousness, but heard only an outcry!
Jeremiah 9:2-6
Oh, that I had a lodging place for travelers in the desert, so that I could leave my people and go away from them. For all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.
Micah 2:1-2
"Woe to those who are crafting iniquity, planning evil well into the night! When morning's light comes, they carry out their plans because they have the power to do so.
Isaiah 3:8
"For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because what they say and do opposes the LORD; they keep defying him.
Isaiah 59:3-15
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your tongue mutters wickedness.
Jeremiah 5:5-6
Let me go to the leaders and speak to them. For they know the LORD's way, the requirement of their God." "But they, all together, have broken the yoke and torn off the restraints.
Jeremiah 5:26-29
"Evil men are found among my people. They lie in wait like someone who traps birds. They set a trap, but they do so to catch people.
Jeremiah 6:6-7
For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Cut down trees and set up siege works against Jerusalem. It is the city to be judged, and there is oppression throughout the entire city.
Ezekiel 22:6-13
"""Watch out! Each of the princes of Israel has misused his authority to shed blood.
Ezekiel 22:25-29
There's a conspiracy of prophets within her, and like a roaring lion tearing its prey, they've devoured people, and confiscated treasures, and taken precious things. They've added to the population of widows within her.
Hosea 4:1-2
"Hear this message from the LORD, people of Israel. Indeed, the LORD brings a charge against the people who live in the land for there is no truth and no gracious love or knowledge of God in the land.
Hosea 7:1
"When I was healing Israel, Ephraim's sin was uncovered, along with Samaria's wickedness. While they craft lying schemes, the thief invades, and the gang of thieves plunders outside.
Amos 5:11-12
"Therefore, since you trample the poor continuously, taxing his grain, building houses of stone in which you won't live and planting fine vineyards from which you won't drink
Amos 6:1-3
"Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, to those who rest on the mountain of Samaria the famous men of the nations to whom the house of Israel came!
Micah 3:1-3
"He will say, "Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you officials of the house of Israel! You should know justice, should you not?
Micah 3:9-11
Please listen to this, you leaders of the house of Jacob, you officials of the house of Israel, you who hate administering justice, who pervert the very meaning of equity,
Micah 7:2-6
The faithful have died off, and there is not one upright human being in the land. They all stalk one another with lethal intent, a man will even hunt his own brother with a net.
Zephaniah 3:3
Its national officials are roaring lions; its judges are like wolves of the night that don't leave the bones for the morning.
Romans 3:13
Their throats are open graves. With their tongues they deceive. The venom of poisonous snakes is under their lips.