Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Bribery » Condemned
Your princes [are] rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them.
And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes [the] sighted blind and ruins [the] words of [the] righteous.
in whose hands [is] an evil plan, and whose right hand is full of bribes.
The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, [in order] to pervert the ways of justice.
Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribe and remove [the] justice of [the] innocent from him.
He who walks [in] righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects [the] gain of extortion, who {refuses} bribe, who stops up his ears from hearing {bloodshed} and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
Courts of justice » Corruption and bribery often practised in
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
Ah! Those who decree decrees of evil, and writers who have written harm,
{That we can} buy [the] powerless with silver and [the] poor for the sake of a pair of sandals, and we can sell the waste of the grain?"
Exposure » Of sin » Rendered doubly certain by God's infinite knowledge
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
And the Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, "Say, 'thus says Yahweh: "This is what you think, house of Israel, and I myself know them, the thoughts of your spirit.
For my eyes [are] on all their ways, they are not hidden {from before me}, and their iniquity is not concealed from before my eyes.
If I had sinned, then you would be watching me, and you would not acquit me of my guilt.
For if you wash with natron, and you {use much soap}, your guilt [is] sticking as a stain {before} me," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.
{But they did not consider} that I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.
Justice » The wicked » Afflict those who act with
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
I am a laughingstock to my friends: '[He] calls on God, and he answers him.' A righteous, blameless man [is] a laughingstock.
Secret sins » Known to God
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
And the Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, "Say, 'thus says Yahweh: "This is what you think, house of Israel, and I myself know them, the thoughts of your spirit.
For my eyes [are] on all their ways, they are not hidden {from before me}, and their iniquity is not concealed from before my eyes.
If I had sinned, then you would be watching me, and you would not acquit me of my guilt.
For if you wash with natron, and you {use much soap}, your guilt [is] sticking as a stain {before} me," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.
{But they did not consider} that I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.
Sin » Internal » Known to God
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
And the Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, "Say, 'thus says Yahweh: "This is what you think, house of Israel, and I myself know them, the thoughts of your spirit.
For my eyes [are] on all their ways, they are not hidden {from before me}, and their iniquity is not concealed from before my eyes.
If I had sinned, then you would be watching me, and you would not acquit me of my guilt.
For if you wash with natron, and you {use much soap}, your guilt [is] sticking as a stain {before} me," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.
{But they did not consider} that I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.
Sin » Described as » Often manifold
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
Sin » Described as » Often mighty
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
The Nation » Bribery » Condemned
Your princes [are] rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them.
And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes [the] sighted blind and ruins [the] words of [the] righteous.
in whose hands [is] an evil plan, and whose right hand is full of bribes.
The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, [in order] to pervert the ways of justice.
Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribe and remove [the] justice of [the] innocent from him.
He who walks [in] righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects [the] gain of extortion, who {refuses} bribe, who stops up his ears from hearing {bloodshed} and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!