Isa 1:23, 30:1, 9, 65:2, Jer 4:17, 5:23, 9:1-6, Dan 9:5-9, Act 7:51-52 | ESV | STEP | Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves . Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts . They do not bring justice to the fatherless , and the widow’s cause does not come to them.

23 Your princes are rebels
and companions of thieves.
Everyone ^aloves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
^bThey do not bring justice to the fatherless,
and the widow’s cause does not come to them.

Isaiah 30:1

Do Not Go Down to Egypt

1 “Ah, ^cstubborn children,” declares the Lord,
^d“who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make ^ean alliance, ^{▼▼Hebrew who weave a web} but not of my Spirit,
that they may add sin to sin;

Isaiah 30:9

9 ^gFor they are a rebellious people,
lying children,
children unwilling to hear
the instruction of the Lord;

Isaiah 65:2

2 ^hI spread out my hands all the day
to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
following their own devices;

Jeremiah 4:17

17 Like keepers of a field ⁱare they against her all around,
because she has rebelled against me,

declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:23

23 ^jBut this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart;
they have turned aside and gone away.

Jeremiah 9:1-6

1 ^{▼▼Ch 8:23 in Hebrew} ^lOh that my head were waters,
and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
for the slain of ^mthe daughter of my people!
2 ^{▼▼Ch 9:1 in Hebrew} Oh that I had in the desert
a travelers’ lodging place,
that I might leave my people
and go away from them!
For they are all ^oadulterers,
a company of ^ptreacherous men.
3 ^qThey bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong} in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
^sand they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 ^tLet everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every ^ubrother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor ^vgoes about as a slanderer.
5 Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.
6 Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
^wthey refuse to know me, declares the Lord.

Daniel 9:5-9

5 ^xwe have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly ^yand rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. 6 ^zWe have not listened to ^aayour servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to ^abour kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7 To you, ^acO Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, ^adthose who are near and ^aethose who are far away, in ^afall the lands to which you have driven them, because of ^agthe treachery that they have committed against you. 8 To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because ^ahwe have sinned against you. 9 ^aiTo the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him

Acts 7:51-52

51 ^aj“You stiff-necked people, ^akuncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. ^alAs your fathers did, so do you. 52 ^amWhich of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of ^anthe Righteous One, ^aowhom you have now betrayed and murdered,