Quotes About Justice

Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.

Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.

Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.

“When I choose a time, I will judge fairly.

I say to the proud, ëDo not boast,í and to the wicked, ëDo not lift up your horn.

but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.

“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”

when God rose up to judge, to save all the lowly of the earth. Selah

He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.

Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.

May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.

Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

A Psalm of Asaph. God presides in the divine assembly; He renders judgment among the gods:

“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.

Arise, O God, judge the earth, for all the nations are Your inheritance.

Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,

May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.

Righteousness will go before Him to prepare the way for His steps.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving devotion and faithfulness go before You.

No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.

I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.

I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.