Quotes About Justice

When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets.

The LORD also brings a charge against Judah. He will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.

But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.

A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.

Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast would tear them apart.

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.

Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.

Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.

I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

Let the nations be roused and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the nations on every side.

Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged.” For the LORD dwells in Zion.

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they delivered up a whole congregation of exiles to Edom and broke a covenant of brotherhood.

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.

They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

Proclaim to the citadels of Ashdod and to the citadels of Egypt: “Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest in the city and the acts of oppression in her midst.”

Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts.

There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.