Quotes About Justice

May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.

May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.

All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”

Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.

They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.

But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.

Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.

Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.

For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.

Awake and rise to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!

Vindicate me by Your righteousness, O LORD my God, and do not let them gloat over me.

Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!”

May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.

Let not the foot of the proud come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.

There the evildoers lie fallen, thrown down and unable to rise.

Of David. Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.

He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.

For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.

The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.

The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.