Quotes About Justice

For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.

You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever.

But the LORD abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment.

He judges the world with justice; He governs the people with equity.

For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah

For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.

Rise up, O LORD, do not let man prevail; let the nations be judged in Your presence.

In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.

He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.

He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.

But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.

The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations perish from His land.

to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.

For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.

“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”

The wicked wander freely, and vileness is exalted among men.

Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.

You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed, yet the LORD is their shelter.