Quotes About Justice

Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,

Hear the uproar from the city; listen to the voice from the temple! It is the voice of the LORD, repaying His enemies what they deserve!

For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.

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

and if you can swear, ëAs surely as the LORD lives,í in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”

“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.

Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.

I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.

Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.

Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land.

“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.

They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ëPeace, peace,í when there is no peace at all.

For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

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,

Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.

They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ëPeace, peace,í when there is no peace at all.

Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”

But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.

Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

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.”

Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?