Isaiah 5:23–24

23 who acquit the guilty for a bribey

and deprive the innocent of justice.

24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw

and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,

so their roots will become like something rotten

and their blossoms will blow away like dust,

for they have rejecteda

the instruction of the Lord of Armies,

and they have despised

the word of the Holy One of Israel.b