Lexicon :: Strong's G1294 - diastrephō

The king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why are you causing the people to neglect their work? Get to your labor! ”

“You must not deny justice to a poor person among you in his lawsuit.

“These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the LORD’s commands and obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.

“Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land the LORD has given them?

His people have acted corruptly toward him;

this is their defect[fn] ​— ​they are not his children

but a devious and crooked generation.

In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,

in the days of Jael,

the main roads were deserted

because travelers kept to the side roads.

When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, the one ruining Israel? ”

They swirl about,

turning round and round at his direction,

accomplishing everything he commands them

over the surface of the inhabited world.

with the pure

you prove yourself pure,

but with the crooked

you prove yourself shrewd.

Don’t turn to the right or to the left;

keep your feet away from evil.

He always plots evil with perversity in his heart;

he stirs up trouble.

“To fear the LORD is to hate evil.

I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct,

and perverse speech.

The one who lives with integrity lives securely,

but whoever perverts his ways will be found out.

Those with twisted minds are detestable to the LORD,

but those with blameless conduct are his delight.

The one who narrows his eyes is planning deceptions;

the one who compresses his lips brings about evil.

What is crooked cannot be straightened;

what is lacking cannot be counted.

Consider the work of God,

for who can straighten out

what he has made crooked?

on the day when the guardians of the house tremble,

and the strong men stoop,

the women who grind grain cease because they are few,

and the ones who watch through the windows see dimly,

They have not known the path of peace,

and there is no justice in their ways.

They have made their roads crooked;

no one who walks on them will know peace.

“Say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the women who sew magic bands on the wrist of every hand and who make veils for the heads of people of every size in order to ensnare lives. Will you ensnare the lives of my people but preserve your own?

“Because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies (when I intended no distress), and because you have supported[fn] the wicked person so that he does not turn from his evil way to save his life,

“So you were the opposite of other women in your acts of prostitution; no one solicited you. When you paid a fee instead of one being paid to you, you were the opposite.

Listen to this, leaders of the house of Jacob,

you rulers of the house of Israel,

who abhor justice

and pervert everything that is right,

This is why the law is ineffective

and justice never emerges.

For the wicked restrict the righteous;

therefore, justice comes out perverted.