Psalm 26:10

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Summary

Psalm 26:10

In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

In

Bribes

Micah 7:3

Bible References

In

You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.

He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.

For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.

Bribes

Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.

You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.

And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.

He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;

In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.