Quotes About Justice

Since you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak ones with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,

I will save My flock, and they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.

Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,

therefore you will no longer devour men or deprive your nation of its children, declares the Lord GOD.

They will not gather wood from the countryside or cut it from the forests, for they will use the weapons for fuel. They will loot those who looted them and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord GOD.

This land will be his possession in Israel. And My princes will no longer oppress My people, but will give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ëEnough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.í

You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.

The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both.

The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.í”

In whatever tribe a foreigner dwells, you are to assign his inheritance there,” declares the Lord GOD.

When Arioch, the commander of the kingís guard, had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon, Daniel replied with discretion and tact.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.

Finally these men said, “We will never find any charge against this Daniel, unless we find something against him concerning the law of his God.”

As soon as the king heard this, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel, and he labored until sundown to rescue him.

Then the men approached the king together and said to him, “Remember, O king, that by the law of the Medes and Persians no decree or ordinance established by the king can be changed.”

My God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, for I was found innocent in His sight, and I have done no wrong against you, O king.”

At the command of the king, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they and their children and wives. And before they had reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

But the court will convene, and his dominion will be taken away and completely destroyed forever.

So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.

And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.

The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.

Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.

Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.