Isaiah 1:23

23Your 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.

Jeremiah 5:5

5I will go to the great
and will speak to them,
for they know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.”
cBut they all alike had broken the yoke;
they had burst the bonds.

Ezekiel 22:27

27 dHer princes in her midst are like wolves etearing the prey, fshedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.

Hosea 5:1-2

Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah

1 gHear this, O priests!
Pay attention, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
For the judgment is for you;
for hyou have been a snare at Mizpah
and a net spread upon iTabor.
2And jthe revolters khave gone deep into slaughter,
but lI will discipline all of them.

Micah 3:11

11 mIts heads give judgment for a bribe;
nits priests teach for a price;
oits prophets practice divination for money;
pyet they lean on the Lord and qsay,
“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
rNo disaster shall come upon us.”

Zephaniah 3:3

3 sHer officials within her
are roaring lions;
her judges are tevening wolves
that leave nothing till the morning.

Acts 4:5-7

5On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem, 6with uAnnas the high priest and vCaiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. 7And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, wBy what power or xby what name did you do this?”

Acts 4:27

27for truly in this city there were gathered together against your yholy servant Jesus, zwhom you anointed, both aaHerod and abPontius Pilate, along acwith the Gentiles and adthe peoples of Israel,
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