Quotes about Corruption
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.
— Hosea 6:10
They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.
— Hosea 7:3
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.
— Hosea 9:9
They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
— Joel 3:3
They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
— Amos 2:7
“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
— Amos 3:10
There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
— Amos 5:7
You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
— Micah 3:2
You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”
— Micah 3:3
who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.
— Micah 3:10
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.”
— Micah 3:11
For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
— Micah 6:12