“They (Israel) have acted corruptly toward Him.
They are not His children, because of their [moral] defect;
But are a perverse and crooked generation.

“Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them,
I will see what their end shall be;
For they are a perverse generation,
Sons in whom there is no faithfulness.

“The heart is deceitful above all things
And it is extremely sick;
Who can understand it fully and know its secret motives?

The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These go astray from birth, speaking lies [even twisted partial truths].

Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a wayward, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse [over me] to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

A perverse heart shall depart from me;
I will not tolerate evil.

“I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bandage the crippled, and strengthen the weak and the sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong [who have become hard-hearted and perverse]. I will feed them with judgment and punishment.

To keep you from the way of evil and the evil man,
From the man who speaks perverse things;

For the devious are repulsive to the Lord;
But His private counsel is with the upright [those with spiritual integrity and moral courage].

A worthless person, a wicked man,
Is one who walks with a perverse (corrupt, vulgar) mouth.

The mouth of the righteous flows with [skillful and godly] wisdom,
But the perverted tongue will be cut out.

A man will be commended according to his insight and sound judgment,
But the one who is of a perverse mind will be despised.

A perverse man spreads strife,
And one who gossips separates intimate friends.

He who [slyly] winks his eyes does so to plot perverse things;
And he who compresses his lips [as if in a secret signal] brings evil to pass.

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity
Than a [rich] man who is twisted in his speech and is a [shortsighted] fool.

“Though I am innocent and in the right, my own mouth would pronounce me guilty;
Though I am blameless, He would denounce me as guilty.

With the pure You show Yourself pure,
And with the crooked You show Yourself astute.

If a man lies [intimately] with a male as if he were a woman, both men have committed a detestable (perverse, unnatural) act; they shall most certainly be put to death; their blood is on them.