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.

And Yahweh said unto Moses - Put back the rod of Aaron, before the testimony, to be kept as a sign unto such as are perverse, - that thou mayest bring to an end their murmurings against me that they die not.

And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:

“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.

While {they were enjoying themselves}, behold, the men of the city, {the perverse lot}, surrounded the house, pounding on the door. And they said to the old man, the owner of the house, "Bring out the man who came to your house so that {we may have sex with him}."

So then, hand over the men, {the perverse lot}, who [are] in Gibeah, so that we may kill them and purge [this] wickedness from Israel." But the descendants of Benjamin were not willing to listen to the voice of their relatives, the {Israelites}.

Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?

And he said to the king, Let not my lord charge iniquity to me. Do not remember the perverse way your servant acted in the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, for the king to take it to his heart.

With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; And with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.

And they turned back to their heart in the land which they were carried away captive there, and they turned back and made supplication to thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We sinned, we were perverse, and we did evil';

To be known to the king that the Jews who went up from with thee to us, came to Jerusalem, building the perverse and bad city, and they completed its wall, and they will repair its foundations.

That it shall be sought in the book of the records of thy fathers: and thou wilt find in the book of the records, and thou wilt know that this city a city perverse and endamaging kings and provinces, and working rebellion in the midst of it from days forever: for this, this city was laid waste.

Being perverse, we were perverse against thee, and we watched not the commands and the laws and the judgments which thou didst command Moses thy servant

And they will be perverse, and they will rebel against thee, and they will cast thy law behind their back, and they killed thy prophets who testified against them to turn them back to thee, and they will make great reproaches.

For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

He took the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the perverse was headlong.

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.

God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.

Only these are tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.

In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.

And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?

Wherefore, ye men of mind, hearken unto me, - Far be it, that, GOD, should be lawless, or, the Almighty, be perverse!

For, unto GOD, hath one ever said - I have borne punishment, I will not be perverse;

You prove to be reliable to one who is blameless, but you prove to be deceptive to one who is perverse.

For, Yahweh, loveth justice, and will not forsake his men of lovingkindness, Unto times age-abiding, have the perverse been destroyed, - and the seed of the lawless, been cut off.

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

They search out perverse things, 'We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart are deep.

O my God, cause me to escape From the hand of the wicked, From the hand of the perverse and violent.

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

The perverse, by reason of their transgression, and on account of their iniquities, are afflicted;

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

who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;

Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:

Indeed, a perverse man is utterly disgusting to the LORD, but he takes the upright into his confidence.

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

A worthless person, a wicked man,
Is the one who walks with a perverse mouth,

planning evil with a perverse mind, continually stirring up discord.

She being noisy and perverse; her feet will not dwell in her house:

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride and the evil way and perverse utterances.

The words of the righteous overflow with wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut out.

Righteous lips know what is prudent, but the words of the wicked are perverse.

The perverse in heart are an abomination to the Lord,
But the blameless in their walk are His delight.

A man will be praised according to his insight,
But one of perverse mind will be despised.

He despising to the word it shall be perverse to him: and he fearing the command shall be requited.

He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.

From his ways, the perverse of heart will be satisfied, and {from his own}, [so shall] a good man.

Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree, but a perverse tongue breaks the spirit.

A perverse man spreads strife,
And a slanderer separates intimate friends.

He who winks his eyes does so to devise perverse things;
He who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.

He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity
Than he who is perverse in speech and is a fool.

The conduct of a guilty man is perverse, but the behavior of the pure is upright.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;
He who guards himself will be far from them.

Your eyes will see strange things
And your mind will utter perverse things.

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse, double in ways, though he be rich.

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered; But he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

An abomination to the righteous is the perverse man, And an abomination to the wicked is the upright in the way!

The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker, "He didn't make me"? Or should the pottery say about the potter, "He doesn't understand"?

And there shall be there, a raised way - even a high road, And the Highroad of Holiness, shall it be called, There shall not pass over it one who is unclean; But He Himself, shall be one of them travelling the road, And the perverse, shall not stray thereinto .

A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.

I spread forth my hands all the day to a perverse people, going the way not good, after their purposes.

A voice on high places is heard -- weeping, Supplications of the sons of Israel, For they have made perverse their way, They have forgotten Jehovah their God.

Surely, perverse, is my people Me, have they not known, Foolish sons, they are, Yea without understanding, they are: Wise, they are to commit wickedness, But how to do well, they know not!

And to this people was a heart turning aside and perverse, and they turned aside and departed.

And they act deceitfully every one with his neighbour, and speak not the truth: they teach their tongue to speak falsehood, they weary themselves with perverse dealing.

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

for ye have shewed yourselves perverse in your souls, for ye sent me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah our God, and according to all that Jehovah our God saith, so declare to us, and we have done it;

And they! whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, for a perverse house, they are, shall then know that la prophet hath been in their midst.

But thou son of man Be not afraid of them Nor of their words, be afraid Though thorns and thistles are about thee, And amongst prickly plants, thou dost dwell, Of their words, be not afraid nor At their faces, be thou dismayed, For a perverse house, they are!

Thou shalt therefore speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear For perverse, they are!

Thou, therefore son of man, hear what I am speaking unto thee., become not perverse like the perverse house, - open thy mouth, and eat that which I am giving unto thee.

As an adamant harder than flint, have I made thy forehead, - thou shalt not fear them neither shalt thou be dismayed at their faces, For a perverse house, they are!

thy tongue also, will I cause to cleave unto the roof of thy mouth, so shalt thou be dumb and not be to them a reprover, - For a perverse house, they are!

But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them. Thus saith My Lord Yahweh, - He that is minded to hear, let him hear, And he that is minded to forbear, let him forbear! For a perverse house, they are!

Son of man. In the midst of a perverse house, dost thou dwell, - Who have eyes to see - and have not seen. Ears have they to hear - and have no heard, For a perverse house, they are.

Thou, therefore Son of man, Prepare thee baggage for exe, and exe thyself, by day, before their eyes, - so shalt thou exe thyself out of thy place unto another place before their eyes, peradventure they will consider - though a perverse house, they are.

Son of man, Have not the house of Israel the perverse house, said unto thee, - What art thou doing?

For, I, Yahweh will speak whatsoever word I please to speak, And it shall be done, It shall not be delayed any more, - For in your own days, O perverse house, will I speak a word and perform it, Declareth My Lord. Yahweh.

Say, I pray thee unto the perverse house, Know ye not what these things are? Say thou Lo! the King of Babylon entered Jerusalem And took her king and her princes, And brought them unto him in Babylon;

But when a righteous man I shall turn away I from his righteousness and do that which is perverse, Shall do according to all the abominations which the lawless man hath done Shall he live? None of his righteous acts which he hath done shall be remembered, In his treachery wherein he hath been treacherous, And in his sin wherein he hath sinned In them, shall he die.

When a righteous man shall turn away from his righteousness and do that which is perverse and die because of those things In his own perversity which he hath done, shall he die.

Put thou forth therefore, against the perverse house a parable, and say unto them Thus saith My Lord, Yahweh: Sot on the caldron set it on, Moreover also pour into it water:

“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.

So then thou shalt say unto the perverse house unto the house of Israel, Thus saith My Lord, Yahweh: Let it more than suffice you Out of all your abominations, O house of Israel:

Therefore the law is slacked, and justice does never go forth: for the wicked does surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.

Its prophets are arrogant and treacherous. Its priests have contaminated the sanctuary. They give perverse interpretations of the Law.

Yahweh, the Righteous One, is in her midst, he dealeth not perversely, - Morning by morning, his justice, bringeth he forth the light, He is not found lacking, but the perverse man knoweth no shame.

And Jesus answered [and] said, "O unbelieving and perverse generation! {How long} will I be with you? {How long} must I put up with you? Bring him here to me!"

he answer'd them, 'twas because of your perverse temper that Moses suffered you to repudiate your wives: but from the beginning this was not in practice.

then he looking with indignation at those about him, being concern'd at their disingenuous perverse temper, he said to the man, stretch out your hand, which he did, and his hand become sound.

And he answered and said to them, O faithless and perverse generation! How long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him to me.

Then Jesus answered and said, O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and bear with you? Bring thy son hither.

We are suffering justly, because we are getting what we deserve for what we have done; but this Man has done nothing wrong.”