You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice.

“You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his dispute.

And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.

You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

“There shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel, or a perverted one of the sons of Israel.

“You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless, nor take a widow’s garment as a pledge.

‘Cursed is the one who perverts the justice due the stranger, the fatherless, and widow.’ “And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

Gibeah’s Crime

As they were enjoying themselves, suddenly certain men of the city, perverted men, surrounded the house and beat on the door. They spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came to your house, that we may know him carnally!”

Now therefore, deliver up the men, the perverted men who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and remove the evil from Israel!” But the children of Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brethren, the children of Israel.

But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

And there were also perverted persons in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

And he banished the perverted persons from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

And the rest of the perverted persons, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he banished from the land.

Then he tore down the ritual booths of the perverted persons that were in the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the wooden image.

Does God subvert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert justice?

Then he looks at men and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted what was right, And it did not profit me.’

Surely God will never do wickedly, Nor will the Almighty pervert justice.

They die in youth, And their life ends among the perverted persons.

He who walks with integrity walks securely, But he who perverts his ways will become known.

A wicked man accepts a bribe behind the back To pervert the ways of justice.

Lest they drink and forget the law, And pervert the justice of all the afflicted.

A voice was heard on the desolate heights, Weeping and supplications of the children of Israel. For they have perverted their way; They have forgotten the Lord their God.

And the oracle of the Lord you shall mention no more. For every man’s word will be his oracle, for you have perverted the words of the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God.

They pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor, And pervert the way of the humble. A man and his father go in to the same girl, To defile My holy name.

Now hear this, You heads of the house of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice And pervert all equity,