5
For they will drink and forget what is decreed,
And apervert the rights of all the afflicted.
a
Exodus 23:6, Deuteronomy 16:19, Proverbs 17:15
Exodus 23
6
"aYou shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.
Deuteronomy 16
19
"aYou shall not distort justice; byou shall not be partial, and cyou shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
Proverbs 17
15
He who ajustifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord.