Quotes About Corruption

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.

They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.

The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.

They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.

They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”

There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,

who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”

Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?

For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.

Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!

Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!

Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.

Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.

greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”