²³ who acquit the guilty for a bribe
    and deprive the innocent of their rights!^(A)

⁴ but with righteousness he shall judge for the poor
    and decide with equity for the oppressed of the earth;
he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
    and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.^(A)

²⁶ For the wicked are found among my people.
    They lie in wait like hunters;
destroyers,^[a] they catch humans.^(A)
27 Like a cage full of birds,
    their houses are full of treachery;
therefore they have become great and rich;^(B)
28     they have grown fat and sleek.
They know no limits in deeds of wickedness;
    they do not judge with justice
the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper,
    and they do not defend the rights of the needy.^(C)