Quotes About Innocence

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.

Showing partiality to the wicked is not good, nor is depriving the innocent of justice.

The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”—peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;

But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.

The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

The infant will play by the cobraís den, and the toddler will reach into the viperís nest.

those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.

Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things

you say, ëI am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.í Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ëI have not sinned.í

if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, upon this city, and upon its residents; for truly the LORD has sent me to speak all these words in your hearing.”

The nursing infantís tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.