Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.

God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt.

so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman,

After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time—if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God and arousing his anger,

Then the Lord told me, “Go down from here at once, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt. They have turned away quickly from what I commanded them and have made an idol for themselves.”

For I know that after my death you are sure to become utterly corrupt and to turn from the way I have commanded you. In days to come, disaster will fall on you because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord and arouse his anger by what your hands have made.”

They are corrupt and not his children; to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.

But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods and serving and worshiping them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption—the ones Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the people of Ammon.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father Uzziah had done, but unlike him he did not enter the temple of the Lord. The people, however, continued their corrupt practices.

you gave through your servants the prophets when you said: ‘The land you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the corruption of its peoples. By their detestable practices they have filled it with their impurity from one end to the other.

how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water!

if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’

Psalm 14

For the director of music. Of David.

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.

All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Psalm 53

For the director of music. According to mahalath. A maskil of David.

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is no one who does good.

Everyone has turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Can a corrupt throne be allied with you— a throne that brings on misery by its decrees?

Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips.

A troublemaker and a villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,

One whose heart is corrupt does not prosper; one whose tongue is perverse falls into trouble.

A corrupt witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down evil.

Extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

Woe to the sinful nation, a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the Lord; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.